- Nov 07, 2020
Absence Quotes
On what's missing, proven, or left unsaid.
These absence quotes range from a paradox about happiness needing no active pursuit to a logical reminder that a lack of evidence isn't evidence of nonexistence, a point often raised in debates over Belief.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
- Clear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020