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Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.
While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Neymar has the capability to be a leader in the absence of Leo. He's one of those players who can make the team feel better.
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go back to high school.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.
My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.
The problem with Mexico isn't so much the men who govern but the lack of rules to govern by and the absence of institutions to rule with.
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
As far as my absence from the public eye is concerned, that's because I'm publicity shy - something which is not considered good nowadays.
This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.