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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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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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"I dote on his very absence."
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Personal Development

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
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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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"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."
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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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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 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."
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"Judicious absence is a weapon."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
Government

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."
Equality

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

"These are the times that try men's souls."
Man

"We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries."
Spiritual

"There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together."
Education

"Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession."
Spiritual

"I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way."
Freedom

"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
Politics

"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice."
God
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