"The ambassador was never present, but his presence……" — Theodore C. Sorensen
"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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26 Quotes by Theodore C. Sorensen
Theodore C. Sorensen has 26 quotes on this site.
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The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign.…
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Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs…
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I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
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We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.
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We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger…
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We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully…
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We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of…
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With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount…
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Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights…
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We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we…
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and…
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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our…
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More Absent Quotes
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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
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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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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