Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
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Absence
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James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Absence, the highest form of presence."
Prince Ea
Activist, Filmmaker, Musician
"Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?"
Carl Sagan
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."
Willa Cather
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
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"Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego."
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"Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you."
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"The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy."
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"Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct."
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"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
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"Friends, though absent, are still present."
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"Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe."
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"True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway."
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"In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams."
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"Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity"
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"Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving."
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"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge."
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"It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there."
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"Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified."
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"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."
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"And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else."
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"Being oppressed means the absence of choices"
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"In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth."
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"Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle."
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"The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete."
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