"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"

Absence, Justice, Memory, Emotion

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"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"

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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

Absence, Man, Woman

"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."

William Cowper, English Poet

Absence, Mind, Occupation, Rest

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Absence, Freedom, May, Obstacles

"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Absence, Difficulty, Grace, Hesitation

"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

Absence, Loss, Memory, Grief

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

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Absence, Religious, World

"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

Absence, Truth, Regret, Power, Inspirational

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

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Absence, Superstition, Theory

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Absence, Fans, Wind

"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

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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

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"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead."

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"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"

Man

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

Fame

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."

Art

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Love

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

Acting

"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Faith

"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."

Music

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

Age