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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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Personal Development

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

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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Personal Development

"I dote on his very absence."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable."
Freedom

"I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well."
Success

"I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about."
Economy

"History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums."
History

"Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here."
Money

"Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country."
Nation

"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills."
Education

"I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive."
Government

"I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University."
Music

"We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real."
Trust
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