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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
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"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."
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"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."
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"If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!"
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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."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"I dote on his very absence."
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"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."
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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
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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."
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
Politics
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
People
"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
Policy
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."
Power
"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions."
Action
"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."
Society
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
Decision-Making
"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
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
Success
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