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John Robert Seeley

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

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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

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"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."

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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher
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"The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis."

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

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

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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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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader
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