"You need the House, you need the Senate……" — John Chafee

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• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in… — Hannah Arendt
• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
• Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
• Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of… — Geraldine Brooks
• The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
• Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will… — John Calvin
• Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are… — Ronald Reagan
• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of… — Germaine Greer
• When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and… — Herophilos
• When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade… — R. T. Kendall
• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with… — Lucretius

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