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Quotations regarding 'Absence'

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.
Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher (1903-1969)
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, American Politician (1940-  )
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, French Dramatist (1896-1948)
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Elizabeth Ashley, American Actress (1939-  )
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine, Saint (354-430)
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, American Critic (1865-1933)
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Derek Bailey, English Musician (1932-2005)
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey, English Poet (1816-1902)
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian (1905-1988)
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
Clara Barton, American Public Servant (1821-1912)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly, English Writer
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist (1923-1964)
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan, Irish Dramatist (1923-1964)
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist (1899-1973)
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, American Author (1962-  )
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher
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, British Celebrity (1950-  )
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler, British Poet (1835-1902)
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