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| While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its ABSENCE a fatal handicap. | Ray Kroc | 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds |
| It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the ABSENCE of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Christianity takes for granted the ABSENCE of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. | A. W. Tozer | ?-1963, American Preacher |
| I am truly horrified by modern man. Such ABSENCE of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. | Alexander Herzen | 1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker |
| Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long ABSENCE, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: ABSENCE does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Woman absent is woman dead. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Courage is not the ABSENCE of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. | Ambrose Redmoon | |
| It is not opium which makes me work but its ABSENCE, and in order for me to feel its ABSENCE it must from time to time be present. | Antonin Artaud | 1896-1948, French Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist |
| Considering the ABSENCE of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.'' | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Peace is not an ABSENCE of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. | Baruch | Benedict de) Spinoza (1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian |
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| The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the ABSENCE of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| I was court-martial in my ABSENCE, and sentenced to death in my ABSENCE, so I said they could shoot me in my ABSENCE. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
| Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the ABSENCE of God. | Bryan Appleyard | Australian Writer |
| So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its ABSENCE but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| Happiness is the ABSENCE of the striving for happiness. | Chuang Tzu | c 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese Philosopher |
| Our hours in love have wings; in ABSENCE, crutches. | Colley Cibber | 1671-1757, British Actor-Manager, Playwright |
| Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, ABSENCE of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. | Cyril Connolly | 1903-1974, British Critic |
| You'll find boredom where there is an ABSENCE of a good idea. | Earl Nightingale | 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker |
| Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. | Edna St. Vincent Millay | 1892-1950, American Poet |
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| Success doesn't mean the ABSENCE of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle. | Edwin C. Bliss | American Author |
| ABSENCE does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. | Elizabeth Ashley | American Actress |
| ABSENCE blots people out. We really have no absent friends. | Elizabeth Bowen | 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist |
| ABSENCE diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total ABSENCE in our opponent. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their ABSENCE by dwelling on their vices. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Love is the total ABSENCE of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. | Gerald G. Jampolsky | American Psychiatrist, Lecturer, Author |
| White is not a mere ABSENCE of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the ABSENCE of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the ABSENCE of disease or infirmity. | Heave | |
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| Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her. | Helen Rowland | 1875-1950, American Journalist |
| Absolute liberty is ABSENCE of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. | Henry Brooks Adams | 1838-1918, American Historian |
| Achilles absent was Achilles still! | Homer | c. 850 -? BC, Greek Epic Poet |
| Grief at the ABSENCE of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. | Jean De La BruyÀre | 1645-1696, French Classical Writer |
| No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. | Jean De La BruyLre | 1645-1696, French Classical Writer |
| The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| I know a love may be revived which ABSENCE, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégout given by satiety. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the ABSENCE of a caress. | Leonard Cohen | 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer |
| No more we meet in yonder bowers ABSENCE has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| A facility for quotation covers the ABSENCE of original thought. | Lord Peter Wimsey | |
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| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not ABSENCE of fear. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| ABSENCE of proof is not proof of ABSENCE. | Michael Crichton | 1942-, American Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Director, Producer |
| ABSENCE -- that common cure of love. | Miguel De Cervantes | 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet |
| Solitude: a sweet ABSENCE of looks. | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
| The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the ABSENCE of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. | Minna Antrim | 1861-18?, American Epigrammist |
| The longest ABSENCE is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. | Ouida | 1838-1908, British Writer |
| A short ABSENCE is the safest. | Ovid | BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet |
| ABSENCE and a friendly neighbour washes away love. | Proverb | |
| Never find fault with the absent. | Proverb | |
| Greater things are believed of those who are absent. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus | 55-117 AD, Roman Historian |
