"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

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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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"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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"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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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

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"I dote on his very absence."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one."

Ezra Cornell, American Businessman

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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

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"Power is the great aphrodisiac."

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"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."

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"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions."

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"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

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"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

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"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."

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