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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

~Gary L. Francione

Topics: Absent Characteristics Evolution Humans Inconsistent Mental Proposition Theory Wholly

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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

~Gary Larson

Topics: Absent Bluebird Chicken Depression Happiness His Life Long Visited

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Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Absent Boy Fathers Figure Grow Grow Up Hardest Homes Like Male Means Models Out Role Role Models Search Up Want Who

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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Absent Before Black Come Connection Cultural Culture Earth Exterior Form Had Jelly Mining Musicals People Remained Strip Viewed Where

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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

~George S. Kaufman

Topics: Absent Author Better Dead Dramatic Only Rehearsals Than

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

~George Santayana

Topics: Absent Embrace Knowledge Recognition Salutation Something

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

~George Santayana

Topics: Absent Cannot Devour Eating Embrace Expect Knowledge Mean Possess Recognition Salutation Something We Cannot

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Gray is the color... the most important of all... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

~Gerhard Richter

Topics: Absent Color Gray Important Most Nothing Opinion The Most Important

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