"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

Absence, Liberty, Responsibility, Restraint

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"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."

William H. Seward, American Statesman

Absence, Law, Slavery, State

"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Absence, Heaven, People, Life, Loss

"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

"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

Absence, Truth, Regret, Power, Inspirational

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Absence, Freedom, May, Obstacles

"I dote on his very absence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Jack Schwartz, American Scientist

Absence, Democracy, Nation

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Absence, Emotion, Love, Feeling

"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Absence, Difficulty, Grace, Hesitation

"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

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"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

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"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

Trust, Purpose, Lies, Nothing

"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

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"A friend in power is a friend lost."

Friendship, Power, Friend

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Education, Facts, Ignorance, Nothing

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"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state."

"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"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!"

"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."

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

"I dote on his very absence."

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

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

"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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"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."