"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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"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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"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

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"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

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

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."

Bob Kane, American Artist

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"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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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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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"I dote on his very absence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"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."

Jean Henri Fabre, French Author

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"Kindness is wisdom."

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"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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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

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"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."

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