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

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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."

Nick Rahall, American Politician

Absence, Wilderness

"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."

Jock Sturges, American Photographer

Absence, Clothes

"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

Absence, Battle, Doubt

"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 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

Absence, Attention

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

William Cowper, English Poet

Absence, Proof

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Absence, Emotion, Love, Feeling

"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

Derek Bailey, English Musician

Absence, Play

"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."

William Cowper, English Poet

Absence, Mind, Occupation, Rest

"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

Absence, Children, Parents

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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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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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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

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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."

"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."

"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."

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

"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."

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

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

"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."

"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."

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

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

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

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

"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."

"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

"Friends are born, not made."