"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."

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"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."

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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."

George Combe, American Educator

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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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"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 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."

Meriwether Lewis, American Explorer

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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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"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."

Peter Cook, British Writer

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"Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism."

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"Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about."

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