Quotes 61 till 80 of 95.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.
Speech, 9 May 1982 -
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
Notes on structured programming (1970) -
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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Song is the tone of feeling. If song, however, be the tone of feeling, what is beautiful singing? The balance of feeling, not the absence of it.
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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.
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Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance -
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
TIME magazine (2 januari 1978) -
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Cosmos -
The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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