"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."

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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."

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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

Absence, Battle, Doubt

"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

Absence, Change, Joy, Life

"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

Absence, Children, Parents

"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

Absence, Answers, Humility, Job

"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

John Robert Seeley, English Writer

Absence, Mind, World

"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

Absence, Appearance, Feeling, Ignorance

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

Jock Sturges, American Photographer

Absence, Clothes

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

Bob Kane, American Artist

Absence,

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

Nick Rahall, American Politician

Absence, Wilderness

"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

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"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Earth

"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."

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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."

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"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."

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"Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living."

Life

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

God

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."

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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."

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