"The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare."

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"The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare."

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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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"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."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

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

William Cowper, English Poet

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

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Judicious absence is a weapon."

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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 weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten."

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"The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island."

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