"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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"Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace."
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"Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender."
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"The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence."
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"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
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"Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen."
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"The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind."
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"The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence."
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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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"I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still."
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"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
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"The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members."
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"Consensus is the absence of leadership."
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"Achilles absent was Achilles still!"
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"But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force."
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"We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun."
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