Quotes with absent-minded

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  • John Donne Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Ann Bancroft Skydiving is something I've never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brock Lesnar Stay open-minded; stay focused. Train hard and train smart. For me, the older I get, the smarter I have to train also, because the recovery time is longer. Work on everything: become a well-rounded fighter - don't just be good at one thing; be good at everything.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Sir Matthew Hale Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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  • Benjamin Franklin The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry Miller The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Blaise Pascal The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen 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.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Caroline Knapp The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • William Hazlitt The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • William James There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Lucretius Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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