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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
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"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."
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"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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"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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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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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."
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"It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation."
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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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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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"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."
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
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"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
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"Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay."
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
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"We say little, when vanity does not make us speak."
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"When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them."
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"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
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