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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

~Ezra Cornell

Topics: Absence Children Dear Duty Expanding Guiding Laborious Minds Our Responsible Wholly You

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I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

~F. Murray Abraham

Topics: About Absence Become Cynic Disappointed Humanity Parties Passionate Political Political Parties Politics Sense Struggle

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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

~Frances Wright

Topics: Absence Belief Ideas Merit Necessary Religious Religious Belief

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Absence Candles Diminishes Fans Fires Great Great Ones Increases Mediocre Passions Wind

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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

~Freya Stark

Topics: Absence Any Art Dose Family Family Life Ingredients Life Like Most Other Rightly Useful

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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.

~Gabrielle Giffords

Topics: Absence Act Congress Create Different Gun Keep Ready Reduce Violence Will Working

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Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.

~Gavin O'Connor

Topics: Absence Always Being Brothers Dad Desire Exploration Fathers Giving Important Just Like Love More Nothing Parents Sibling Stories Terrain Think Whether You

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During the time I didn't play for England, they were losing Test matches, and the Yorkshire committee were telling me that I should be batting for my country. Then, when I decided to make myself available to play for England again in 1977, and Yorkshire lost a couple of matches in my absence, they criticised me for not being there.

~Geoffrey Boycott

Topics: Absence Again Available Batting Being Being There Committee Country Couple Decided England Losing Lost Make Matches Me Myself Play Should Telling Test Then Time Were Yorkshire

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I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

~George Combe

Topics: Absence Air Also Attention Breathed Contained Full Had Hall Hour Lost Means Much Must Needed Properties Renewed Vital Which

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In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

~George Grosz

Topics: Absence Few Free Free Man Given Least Leave Man Might Military Military Service Months Rather Recalled Service Sort Understanding While Within

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