#absence

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ↗

— Ray Kroc

#advantage #fatal #formal #guarantee #handicap

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#accept #child #conflict #differing #education

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#amazement #amazing #commas #editing #funny

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship. ↗

— C.J. Langenhoven

#friendship #love #friendship

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ↗

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

#long-distance-love #longing #love #separation #love

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#happiness #happy #joy #pain #relief

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#evidence #medicine #quip #wordplay #medicine

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ↗

— David Bowie

#absolute #challenging #confront #confrontation #corpse

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

— Willa Cather

#absence #bewildering #country #depressing #disheartening