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There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

Patrick J. Kennedy

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Bob Kane

Absence

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.