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

"The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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Personal Development

"I dote on his very absence."
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Personal Development

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

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

"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
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"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."
Faith

"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
Spiritual

"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
Spiritual

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
Society

"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Inspirational

"Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you...God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it--made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand."
Faith

"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
Justice

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
Art

"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."
Time

"Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure."
Philosophy
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