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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
Absence

"i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Absence

"We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort."

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"Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
Absence

"Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us."

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Sean Young Actress
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"There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Absence

"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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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Absence

"If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist."

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