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"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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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."
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"I dote on his very absence."
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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
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"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."
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"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."
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"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."
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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"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."
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
Friendship
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
Truth
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."
Talent
"A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one."
Work
"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
People
"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
Security
"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
Living
"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
Power
"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
Quality
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
Love
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