Judicious absence is a weapon.
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
I have removed the spleen from a dog, from cats, and rabbits. In all cases, the animals survived the operation and did not appear to be in the least affected by the absence of the organ.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
