"Absence of failure does not constitute success."
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"Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us."
"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."
"And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it."
"Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life."
"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."
"Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit."
"The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity."
"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."
"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."
"Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries."
"Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence."
"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers."
"In the absence of fear, there can be no courage."
"The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue."
"Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real."