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

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

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"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."

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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

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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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"The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare."

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"The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis."

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

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"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."

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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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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

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