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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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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."
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"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."
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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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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."
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"Judicious absence is a weapon."
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"Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics."
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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."
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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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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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"There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."
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"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."
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"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved."
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"Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified."
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"We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it."
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