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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Aleister Crowley All Absence Quotes
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Thomas Hardy 
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I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Ronald Reagan
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To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.
Joseph Ratzinger
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Bram Fischer
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Tammy Bruce
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Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Nick Rahall
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Salman Rushdie
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Popular Absence Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldWilliam ShakespeareMark TwainBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonSamuel ButlerAmbrose BierceGilbert K. ChestertonBertrand RussellWilliam Hazlitt OvidRonald ReaganBarack ObamaLord ByronTheodore Roosevelt
Theodor AdornoMiguel De CervantesJean de la BruyereJean-Paul SartreThomas PaineWayne DyerKarl MarxAlfred North WhiteheadHenry A. KissingerJean PaulJohn Stuart MillBaruch SpinozaOrson WellesAlfred Lord TennysonAnais Nin
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