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

Absence, Country

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

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"Judicious absence is a weapon."

Charles Reade, English Novelist

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"I dote on his very absence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader

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"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

Derek Bailey, English Musician

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"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."

Edward Everett, American Statesman

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"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."

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"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."

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"As in most families, the mere struggle to have anything of one's own, to be one's self at all, creates an element of strain that keeps everybody almost at the breaking point."

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"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."

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"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

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"The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor."

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"I only knew the schoolbooks said he 'died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.''More than him has done that,' said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent."

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"Prayers said by good people are always good prayers."

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"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

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