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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. Karl Marx Absence 755
I dote on his very absence. William Shakespeare Absence 182
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. Dorothy Thompson Absence 171
The surest test of discipline is its absence. Clara Barton Absence 119
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Thomas Paine Absence 107
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor Adorno Absence 95
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. Jean De La Bruyere Absence 94
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. Elizabeth Ashley Absence 91
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart. Dick Armey Absence 87
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. Alice Koller Absence 85
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Leo Rosten Absence 82
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. Walter Benjamin Absence 81
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. Irving Babbitt Absence 80
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. William Lyon Mackenzie King Absence 79
Greater things are believed of those who are absent. Tacitus Absence 77
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry A. Kissinger Absence 75
In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State. Patrick J. Kennedy Absence 74
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. Ezra Cornell Absence 74
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. Salman Rushdie Absence 72
Never find fault with the absent. Proverbs Absence 71
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. Tammy Bruce Absence 70
Judicious absence is a weapon. Charles Reade Absence 69
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. Peter Cook Absence 69
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned. Donna Rice Absence 67
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. William Cowper Absence 67
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 (George Gordon) Byron Absence 65
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Johann von Goethe Absence 65
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. Colley Cibber Absence 64
Woman absent is woman dead. Ambrose Bierce Absence 64
With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus. Michael Burgess Absence 60
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Elizabeth Bowen Absence 59
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. Arthur Miller Absence 58
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed. George Combe Absence 56
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. Proverbs Absence 55
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation. Jack Schwartz Absence 55
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? Arthur Miller Absence 53
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 Absence 53
And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else. Patti Davis Absence 52
I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back. Brooke Burns Absence 48
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! Edsger Dijkstra Absence 45
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Absence 45
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. Francis Wright Absence 43
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. King Hussein I Absence 43
Parting is such sweet sorrow. William Shakespeare Absence 42
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. Sir Matthew Hale Absence 36
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. Anais Nin Absence 33
But I still always felt the absence of a mother. Marcel Carne Absence 31
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Elizabeth Bowen Absence 30
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul Absence 30
A short absence is the safest. Ovid Absence 30

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