Absence Quotes
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.
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You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
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The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.
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I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.
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If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If
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Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
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If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
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I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
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Patience is the absence of expectation.
