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"Judicious absence is a weapon."

Charles Reade, English Novelist

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"Judicious absence is a weapon."

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"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

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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

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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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"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

George Grosz, German 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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"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

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"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."

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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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"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

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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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