Top Absence Quotes
We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Rafik Hariri
Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
Virgil Goode
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson 
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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Dorothy Thompson 
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Alexander Herzen 
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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
John Robert Seeley 
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