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absence evidence
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
absence complete full knowledge possession trust
The possession of full knowledge does away with the need of trusting, while complete absence of knowledge makes trust evidently impossible. Georg Simmel
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. Marguerite Gardiner
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We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians. William Blum
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We know from experience that the absence of sexual and reproductive health services results in an increase in unintended pregnancies and, inevitably, a greater number of unsafe abortions. Gareth Thomas
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. John Millington Synge
absence french-writer love wind
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. Shimon Peres
absence approved dropping focus increasing leave taking
She's not dropping out. She's taking an approved leave of absence to focus on her increasing responsibilities and live her life.
french-writer keeping none reason
We need a reason for speaking, we need none for keeping silent.
french-writer snowflake
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
french-writer self-knowledge study
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. William Drummond
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We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. Alfred Jarry
french-writer hard women
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
french-writer
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
french-writer
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
french-writer useful
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
french-writer man
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
love lost-youth ideas
I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought. Charles Dickens
love mind unhappy
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
love friendship relationship
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
love powerful disappointment
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
love honesty heart
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
love mean men
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.
love lying men
What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!
love night reality
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.
love christmas education
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing! Alan Green
wind outsiders balloons
I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me. Chris Bauer
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
wind sea voice
There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"