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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion. – Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The absence of love is the most abject pain. – Herr Lipp	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. – La Rochefoucald	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Comte DeBussy-Rabutin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. – De La Rochefoucauld.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that fears your presence will hate you absence. – Thomas Fuller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Brendan Francis Behan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Brendan Behan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. – Michael Crichton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. – Anais Nin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims) – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The absence of war is not peace. – Harry S Truman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. – Comte DeBussy-Rabutin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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