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> [Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/grace-is-the-absence-of-everything-that-indicates-pain-or-difficulty/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-a-gill/boredom-is-not-a-thing-it-s-not-a-feeling-or-a-condition-it-is-the/)

[A. A. Gill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-a-gill/)

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> [The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scar-arias/the-absence-of-significant-development-aid-has-only-increased-the/)

[Óscar Arias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scar-arias/)

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> [A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-nighy/a-way-of-describing-performances-that-i-admire-is-that-there-is-an/)

[Bill Nighy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-nighy/)

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> [Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jacques-rousseau/days-of-absence-sad-and-dreary-clothed-in-sorrow-s-dark-array-days-of-2/)

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jacques-rousseau/)

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> [Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/absence-diminishes-mediocre-passions-and-increases-great-ones-as-the/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/how-like-a-winter-hath-my-absence-been-from-thee-the-pleasure-of-the/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joss-whedon/i-believe-the-only-reality-is-how-we-treat-each-other-the-morality/)

[Joss Whedon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joss-whedon/)

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> [Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/love-is-quite-violent-it-is-so-painful-at-times-so-devastating-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clayton-christensen/capitalism-has-taught-us-that-markets-are-always-more-efficient-than/)

[Clayton Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clayton-christensen/)

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> [It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-s-true-i-am-afraid-of-dying-i-am-afraid-of-the-world-moving-2/)

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/)

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> [Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-breault/your-clothes-smell-heavily-of-clothing-your-den-is-filled-with-low/)

[Robert Breault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-breault/)

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> [“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-shihab-nye/apparently-people-commonly-died-when-their-loved-ones-were-out-of-the/)

[Naomi Shihab Nye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-shihab-nye/)

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> [But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richelle-mead/but-what-i-found-most-interesting-was-that-aaron-had-apparently-found/)

[Richelle Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richelle-mead/)

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> [There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-cooke/there-are-absences-but-there-are-also-presences-it-s-about-how/)

[Nigel Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-cooke/)

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> [In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/in-a-world-where-everyone-struggles-to-survive-whatever-the-cost-how-2/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [Blackness also has positive dimensions, those that bear the political meanings of African American people, among other blacks, who have struggled for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-eric-dyson/blackness-also-has-positive-dimensions-those-that-bear-the-political/)

[Michael Eric Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-eric-dyson/)

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> [I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-wiman/i-can-see-now-how-deeply-god-s-absence-affected-my-unconscious-life/)

[Christian Wiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-wiman/)

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> [Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-kucinich/peace-is-a-condition-of-the-heart-it-s-a-state-of-mind-of-tranquility/)

[Dennis Kucinich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-kucinich/)

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> [I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/i-demand-that-the-world-be-good-and-lo-it-obeys-i-proclaim-the-world/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/peace-in-the-sense-of-the-absence-of-war-is-of-little-value-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/she-is-convinced-that-when-language-dies-out-of-carelessness-disuse/)

[Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/)

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> [Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-j-cohen/most-of-us-have-become-ecozombies-desensitized-environmental/)

[Michael J Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-j-cohen/)

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> [We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/we-cannot-too-soon-convince-ourselves-how-easily-we-may-be-dispensed/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [Missing you is flashes of our past and fantasies of our future with the hard irony of the absence of our present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shalini/missing-you-is-flashes-of-our-past-and-fantasies-of-our-future-with/)

[Shalini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shalini/)

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> [Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-lindstrom/fear-can-come-across-in-absence-of-sharp-corners-locked-windows-in/)

[Martin Lindstrom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-lindstrom/)

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> [Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/earl-a-grollman/courage-is-not-the-absence-of-fear-and-pain-but-the-affirmation-of/)

[Earl A Grollman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/earl-a-grollman/)

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> [Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kenneth-galbraith/inventions-that-are-not-made-like-babies-that-are-not-born-are-rarely/)

[John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kenneth-galbraith/)

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> [The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-washington/the-friendship-i-have-conceived-will-not-be-impaired-by-absence-but/)

[George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-washington/)

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> [As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-brownell-jameson/as-the-presence-of-those-we-love-is-as-a-double-life-so-absence-in/)

[Anna Brownell Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-brownell-jameson/)

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> [The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-steele-commager/the-greatest-danger-we-face-is-not-any-particular-kind-of-thought-the/)

[Henry Steele Commager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-steele-commager/)

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> [Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-d-arnott/successful-contrarian-investing-requires-us-to-live-with-discomfort/)

[Robert D. Arnott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-d-arnott/)

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> [When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brendan-behan/when-i-came-back-to-dublin-i-was-courtmartialed-in-my-absence-and/)

[Brendan Behan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brendan-behan/)

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> [There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/there-s-been-a-lot-of-talk-about-black-men-and-the-presence-and/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

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> [In you is the illusion of each day. You arrive like the dew to the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/in-you-is-the-illusion-of-each-day-you-arrive-like-the-dew-to-the/)

[Pablo Neruda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-neruda/)

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> [The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-joy-of-life-is-variety-the-tenderest-love-requires-to-be/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-giffords/in-the-absence-of-a-congress-ready-to-act-to-reduce-gun-violence-we/)

[Gabrielle Giffords](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-giffords/)

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> [Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/persons-are-judged-to-be-great-because-of-the-positive-qualities-they/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-coupland/no-tech-tourism-is-a-form-of-temporal-eco-tourism-in-which-one-reads/)

[Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-coupland/)

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> [I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-r-murrow/i-am-frightened-by-the-imbalance-the-constant-striving-to-reach-the/)

[Edward R. Murrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-r-murrow/)

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