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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
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Personal Development
"I dote on his very absence."
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Personal Development
"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."
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Personal Development
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"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."
Philosophy
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice
"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
Love
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
Philosophy
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
Desire
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
Philosophy
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Ability
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
Philosophy
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