"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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"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

George Combe, American Educator

Absence, Attention

"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

Absence, Battle, Doubt

"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

Absence, State, Weapons

"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."

George Grosz, German Artist

Absence, Man, Military, Months

"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!"

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Absence, Change, Joy, Life

"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."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

Absence, Children, Parents

"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

"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

Absence, Mind, World

"There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America."

Harold Pinter, English Dramatist

Absence, America, Court, states

"The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis."

Ali A. Saleh, American Politician

Absence, Cause, Events, Justice

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"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."

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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

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"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."

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"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."

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"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."

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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."

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"We must be doing something to be happy."

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