"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

Absence, Justice

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"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"

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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, French Novelist

Absence, Ugliness

"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

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"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

Absence, Mind

"In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway."

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

Absence, Superstition, Theory

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

Derek Bailey, English Musician

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"Judicious absence is a weapon."

Charles Reade, English Novelist

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"In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes."

Pieter Zeeman, Dutch Physicist

Absence, Effect

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

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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."

Karl Radek, Ukrainian Politician

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"Custom is second nature."

Nature

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

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"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

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"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

Religion

"God is best known in not knowing him."

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"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."

Being

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

Psychology

"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."

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"When spirits fall, their darkness is revealed, for they are stripped of the garment of your light. By the misery and restlessness which they then suffer you make clear to us how noble a being is your rational creation, for nothing less than yourself suffices to give it rest and happiness. This means that it cannot find them in itself. For you, O God, will shine on the darkness about us. From you proceeds our garment of light, and our dusk shall be noonday."

Spiritual

"For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy."

Spiritual