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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
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"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."
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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
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"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
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"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
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"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."
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
Enemy
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
Experience
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
Absence
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Leadership
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
Success
"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."
Friendship
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
Experience
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