Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices."
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Absent
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Mortimer Adler
Philosopher, Educator
"Books are absent teachers."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
Samuel Daniel
Poet
"The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears."
Ovid
Poet
"Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]"
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"There is no good singing, there is only present and absent."
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"I was absent at the moment I took up the most space."
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"Everything disturbs an absent lover."
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"The absent are easily refuted."
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"I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things."
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"The absent partie is still faultie."
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"The Mr. absent, and the house dead."
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"That which is revealed when thoughts are absent is also here when thoughts are present."
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