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> [But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-hill/but-i-have-long-loved-the-written-word-and-come-to-see-in-it-the/)

[Lawrence Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-hill/)

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> [Sometimes when someone leaves you feel likea piece of you has been torn out. You fill in that void with things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/sometimes-when-someone-leaves-you-feel-likea-piece-of-you-has-been/)

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

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> [“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-many-great-gardens-of-the-world-of-literature-and-poetry-of/)

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

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> [I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-martineau/i-have-suffered-like-other-writers-from-indolence-irresolution/)

[Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-martineau/)

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> [But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/but-today-the-idea-of-faith-returns-to-me-faith-defies-logic-and/)

[Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/)

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> [The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-whole-essence-of-zen-consists-in-walking-along-the-razor-s-edge/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-bantock/for-me-synchronicity-is-a-way-of-confirming-the-rightness-of-action/)

[Nick Bantock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-bantock/)

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> [Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/even-if-the-absence-of-government-really-did-mean-anarchy-in-a/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-see-all-this-talk-about-jobs-going-overseas-as-a-symptom-of-the/)

[Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/)

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> [Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/love-s-absence-ailed-me-i-could-not-imagine-loving-my-husband-he-was/)

[Tehmina Durrani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tehmina-durrani/)

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> [The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/the-universal-human-laws-need-love-for-the-beloved-fear-hunger/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/how-could-she-feel-nostalgia-when-he-was-right-in-front-of-her-how/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-gore/local-and-state-governments-have-outrun-the-federal-government-the/)

[Al Gore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-gore/)

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> [Enter any moment devoid of agenda, with an absence of posturing, and with your only intention being to send love to everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/enter-any-moment-devoid-of-agenda-with-an-absence-of-posturing-and/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/i-believe-that-there-is-no-test-of-greatness-in-periods-nations-or/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-left-ground-and-sky-weeping-mind-and-soul-full-of-grief-no-one-2/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

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> [“Absence has presence, sometimes, and that was what she felt. Absence like crushed-dead grass were something has been and is no longer.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laini-taylor/absence-has-presence-sometimes-and-that-was-what-she-felt-absence/)

[Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laini-taylor/)

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> [We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-have-wandered-into-a-state-of-prolonged-neurosis-because-of-the/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

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> [If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/if-by-happiness-you-mean-the-absence-of-adversity-i-and-all/)

[David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/)

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> [There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-howard/there-is-much-in-american-society-which-i-admire-but-i-have-long-held/)

[John Howard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-howard/)

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> [Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/socrates/serenity-regularity-absence-of-vanity-sincerity-simplicity-veracity/)

[Socrates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/socrates/)

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> [Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-scott-card/sister-carlotta-i-m-on-a-leave-of-absence-right-now-that-means-i-ve/)

[Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-scott-card/)

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> [Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bloomberg/five-years-have-come-and-five-years-have-gone-and-still-we-stand/)

[Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bloomberg/)

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> [In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/in-the-absence-of-sound-oversight-responsible-businesses-are-forced/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-chaucer/thus-with-hir-fader-for-a-certeyn-space-dwelleth-this-flour-of-wyfly/)

[Geoffrey Chaucer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-chaucer/)

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> [Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/learned-hand/bipartisan-democracy-presupposes-the-individual-whose-welfare-is/)

[Learned Hand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/learned-hand/)

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> [To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/to-be-godless-is-probably-the-first-step-to-innocence-he-said-to-lose/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [“i know they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. but sometimes, absence can also reveal the waning of once fond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heather-cochran/i-know-they-say-that-absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder-but/)

[Heather Cochran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heather-cochran/)

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> [Silence is the absence of words that mean so much to deafened ears who wait so long and never hear. Silence is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/silence-is-the-absence-of-words-that-mean-so-much-to-deafened-ears/)

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

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> [The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/the-negroes-of-america-had-taken-the-president-the-press-and-the/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-neruda/i-ask-permission-to-be-like-everybody-else-like-the-rest-of-the-world/)

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

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> [We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-perel/we-know-desire-is-rooted-in-absence-and-yearning-what-you-don-t-have/)

[Esther Perel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-perel/)

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> [Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglass-north/information-costs-are-reduced-by-the-existence-of-large-numbers-of/)

[Douglass North](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglass-north/)

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> [If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-dyer/if-you-know-with-a-complete-absence-of-doubt-that-what-you-are-doing/)

[Wayne Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-dyer/)

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> [I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-mccarthy/i-don-t-think-life-offers-any-greater-experience-than-the-joyful/)

[Abigail McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-mccarthy/)

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> [Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/her-absence-had-felt-like-torture-almost-a-form-of-personal/)

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

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> [Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/human-life-is-thus-only-a-perpetual-illusion-men-deceive-and-flatter/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/mother-went-off-for-three-days-to-new-york-and-mame-and-quentin-took/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mildred-blaxter/health-can-be-defined-negatively-as-the-absence-of-illness/)

[Mildred Blaxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mildred-blaxter/)

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> [I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/i-never-even-for-a-moment-doubted-what-they-d-told-me-this-is-why-it/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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                        "text": "Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.",
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                        "text": "In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.",
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                        "text": "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.",
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                        "text": "To be godless is probably the first step to innocence,\" he said, \"to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost.\" So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions.\" An absence of need for illusions,\" he said. \"A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.",
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                        "text": "“i know they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. but sometimes, absence can also reveal the waning of once fond feelings. time passes and it's a surprise to realize that you haven't missed him, or her, or the place or the job that once felt like a match. ”",
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                        "text": "Silence is the absence of words that mean so much to deafened ears who wait so long and never hear. Silence is the absence of emotion to lonely hearts so full of fear wanting and waiting for someone not there. Silence is the absence of touch that means so much thats says, dont worry, Im here, I care.",
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                        "text": "The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.",
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                        "text": "I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.",
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