"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

Absence, Difficulty, Grace, Hesitation

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"Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity."

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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

Absence, Truth, Regret, Power, Inspirational

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

Absence, Mind

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

Willa Cather, American Author

Absence, Country

"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."

Alfonso G. Robles, American Diplomat

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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."

William H. Seward, American Statesman

Absence, Law, Slavery, State

"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."

Arthur Miller, American Playwright

Absence, Answers, Humility, Job

"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity."

Jean Henri Fabre, French Author

Absence, Appearance, Feeling, Ignorance

"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

Absence, Effect

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

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about."

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

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"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it."

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"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."

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"Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune."

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"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

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"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."

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