#absence

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?


Saint Augustine


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Life has become the ideology of its own absence.


Theodor Adorno


#become #ideology #life #own

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.


Meriwether Lewis


#deer #during #fine #four #fox

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.


Jawaharlal Nehru


#absence #also #brought #come #condition

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.


Nick Rahall


#activities #certain #characteristics #defined #invaluable

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld


#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.


Jose Ortega y Gasset


#appeal #barbarism #made #standards #which

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.


Rafik Hariri


#accountable #agreement #anything #basis #because

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.


Bob Kane


#batman #bill #conspicuous #created #finger

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