"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

Absence, Criticism, Freedom

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

Absence, Mind

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

William Cowper, English Poet

Absence, Proof

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

Willa Cather, American Author

Absence, Country

"The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories."

Alfonso G. Robles, American Diplomat

Absence, State, Weapons

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

George Grosz, German Artist

Absence, Man, Military, Months

"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."

William H. Seward, American Statesman

Absence, Law, Slavery, State

"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Absence, Superstition, Theory

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Absence, Emotion, Love, Feeling

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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

"The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories."

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."

"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

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"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will."

"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."

"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."

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"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."

"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete."

"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."