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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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"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."

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."

"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."

"Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics."

"In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes."

"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
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"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."

"Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him."
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