"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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"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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"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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Absence is more, thorny on the soul, than however dulcet, presence can be.Apparently, I have missed you, more than, I have ever loved you."

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."

Edward Everett, American Statesman

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"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

John Robert Seeley, English Writer

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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Absence, Justice, Memory, Emotion

"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader

Absence, Man, Woman

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

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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."

Philip James Bailey, English Poet

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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."

Pieter Zeeman, Dutch Physicist

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