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

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

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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader

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

William Cowper, English Poet

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Alfonso G. Robles, American Diplomat

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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."

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"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."

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"There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power."

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"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

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"He that is jealous is not in love."

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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."

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"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."

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"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."

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