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> [Consensus is the absence of leadership.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-thatcher/consensus-is-the-absence-of-leadership/)

[Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-thatcher/)

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> [The mere absence of war is not peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/the-mere-absence-of-war-is-not-peace/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [Hell is God's Absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-white/hell-is-god-s-absence/)

[Edmund White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-white/)

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> [I dote on his very absence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/i-dote-on-his-very-absence/)

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

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> [Absence makes the heart go fonder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-haynes-bayly/absence-makes-the-heart-go-fonder/)

[Thomas Haynes Bayly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-haynes-bayly/)

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> [“Freedom is the absence of influence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugo-embleton-black/freedom-is-the-absence-of-influence/)

[Hugo Embleton-Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugo-embleton-black/)

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> [Patience is the absence of expectation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shinichi-suzuki/patience-is-the-absence-of-expectation/)

[Shinichi Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shinichi-suzuki/)

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> [The absence of disease is not health.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shawn-achor/the-absence-of-disease-is-not-health/)

[Shawn Achor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shawn-achor/)

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> [“Most interesting things in our lives happens in our absence”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/most-interesting-things-in-our-lives-happens-in-our-absence/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [“Because even the one you hate leaves an absence when they go.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-ness/because-even-the-one-you-hate-leaves-an-absence-when-they-go/)

[Patrick Ness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-ness/)

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> [“Distance brings sweetness. Absence tames what is near.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-bobin/distance-brings-sweetness-absence-tames-what-is-near/)

[Christian Bobin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-bobin/)

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> [Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mellody-hobson/bravery-is-not-the-absence-of-fear-it-is-overcoming-it/)

[Mellody Hobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mellody-hobson/)

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> [If someone tells you, Life is too short He/she never waited for someone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shalini/if-someone-tells-you-life-is-too-short-he-she-never-waited-for-someone/)

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

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> [Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-mirabeau/short-absence-quickens-love-long-absence-kills-it/)

[Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honore-gabriel-riqueti-comte-de-mirabeau/)

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> [“If your absence is ever felt, then you will be either missed or cursed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shreya-gupta/if-your-absence-is-ever-felt-then-you-will-be-either-missed-or-cursed/)

[Shreya Gupta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shreya-gupta/)

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> [Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/our-world-is-in-crisis-because-of-the-absence-of-consciousness/)

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

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> [Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor-swift/fearless-is-not-the-absence-of-fear-fearless-is-living-in-spite-of/)

[Taylor Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taylor-swift/)

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> [It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-h-seward/it-is-the-maintenance-of-slavery-by-law-in-a-state-not-parallels-of/)

[William H. Seward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-h-seward/)

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> [Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/absence-abates-a-moderate-passion-and-intensifies-a-great-one-as-the/)

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

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> [Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/meditation-then-is-a-state-of-mind-in-which-the-me-is-absent-and/)

[Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiddu-krishnamurti/)

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> [Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/of-all-the-ills-that-our-poor-society-is-heir-to-the-focal-one-it/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/older-people-are-most-beautiful-when-they-have-what-is-lacking-in-the/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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> [I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keats/i-wish-you-could-invent-some-means-to-make-me-at-all-happy-without/)

[John Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keats/)

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> [Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/virtue-is-not-the-absence-of-vices-or-the-avoidance-of-moral-dangers-2/)

[Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/)

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> [When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-ozon/when-i-spoke-with-psychoanalysts-they-confirmed-to-me-that-the-most/)

[Francois Ozon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-ozon/)

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> [Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/indeed-among-the-lesser-auxiliaries-to-success-in-love-an-absence-the/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [The complete absence of the story - that was the best thing about this whole thing, because you know that nothing's going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-abramovic/the-complete-absence-of-the-story-that-was-the-best-thing-about-this/)

[Marina Abramovic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-abramovic/)

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> [ While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections \[2016\], it also maintains… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-brazile/while-cnn-has-hired-a-fleet-of-new-political-reporters-to-beef-up-its/)

[Donna Brazile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-brazile/)

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> [...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audrey-hepburn/perhaps-that-is-what-ultimately-unites-us-as-a-world-the-fact-that-no/)

[Audrey Hepburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audrey-hepburn/)

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> [“His love, like all loves that are simple and pure, had made it unthinkable that she should have any desire other than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-m-cicinski/his-love-like-all-loves-that-are-simple-and-pure-had-made-it/)

[T.M Cicinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-m-cicinski/)

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> [We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-clarke/we-communicate-happiness-to-others-not-often-by-great-acts-of/)

[Adam Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-clarke/)

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> [Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that you don't recover. Instead, you learn to incorporate their absence and memories into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rashida-rowe/anyone-who-has-lost-a-loved-one-knows-that-you-don-t-recover-instead/)

[Rashida Rowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rashida-rowe/)

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> [In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-kay-zuravleff/in-a-family-you-take-on-each-other-s-problems-and-joys-differently/)

[Mary Kay Zuravleff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-kay-zuravleff/)

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> [Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarice-lispector/putting-my-hand-in-someone-else-s-has-always-been-my-definition-of/)

[Clarice Lispector](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarice-lispector/)

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> [Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elsa-maxwell/fight-fire-with-fire-if-you-must-have-bores-always-put-them-together/)

[Elsa Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elsa-maxwell/)

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> [Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/even-the-absurdest-report-may-in-nearly-every-instance-be-traced-to/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gilbert/suddenly-this-defeat-this-rain-the-blues-gone-gray-and-the-browns/)

[Jack Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-gilbert/)

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> [I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-ve-made-a-profound-transformation-i-ve-fashioned-some-cyber/)

[Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/)

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> [Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one's self. It is not about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/solitude-does-not-necessarily-mean-living-apart-from-others-rather-it/)

[Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/)

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> [“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-barry/and-the-view-was-suddenly-clear-to-me-the-world-opened-out-to-its/)

[Kevin Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-barry/)

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