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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.
Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.
In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.
In the absence of federal leadership, Coloradans should take our rightful role as leaders seriously and work with other states and countries to reduce carbon emissions.
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.
Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.
Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
I want to play roles where my absence should be felt. It may not necessarily be a lead role, but my character should be crucial to the show.
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.
...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.
I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.
I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
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.
I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.
When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.
It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.
Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
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.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.
Sangram is my best friend. He loves me more than himself and his absence in my life has brought a vacuum in my life.
In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel, the twice bombed-out de facto international news bureau.
I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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.
It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a major problem with the patriarchs having been chased out of the house.
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust
My absence doth neglect no great design
Which by my presence might have been concluded.
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.
In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.
Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Gangs are born of a lethal absence of hope, and hope has an address: 130 W. Bruno St. in Los Angeles, CA 90012.
