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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."
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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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"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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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."
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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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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
Friendship
"No young man ever thinks he shall die."
Man
"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
Beauty
"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."
Nothing
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
Self
"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."
Courage
"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."
Identity
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