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Letter "A" » Absence
«Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.»
Author: Dorothy Thompson
| About:
Absence,
Peace
| Keywords:
aggressive, alternatives, passive, responding, responses
«Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
An Age, every month, months, reckons
«In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.»
Author: Alan Greenspan
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
confiscation, gold standard, inflation, of value, savings
«People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
Absence,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
absence, bear, harder, impotence, responsibility
«Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.»
«Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.»
«One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
balanced, option, zero
«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.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, affliction, hold off, truer
«In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
organized, robberies, robbery, sovereignty
«I dote on his very absence.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Absence
| Keywords:
dote, doted, doting
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