116 Quotes About Absent

  • Author William Hazlitt
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    Those who wish to forget painful thoughts, do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

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  • Author Donna Jones
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    I knew something was wrong this morning because he always forewarns me when he's going to be absent and so I had a feeling something might have gone wrong.

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  • Author Alan Kral
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    Absent bad news, the market wants to go up. There's a lot of money around and a lot of hope around.

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  • Author Caroline Knapp
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    The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation.

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  • Author David Katz
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    Absent these fundamentals of public health preparedness, no computer model will help us.

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  • Author Jeannine Kenney
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    Network operators have always functioned as neutral transmitters, meaning they don't control who you call, when you call, et cetera. So until this point, consumers were led to believe that they would not monitor communication on their networks absent a warrant.

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  • Author Jon Klein
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    Absent a legend, they have very big shoes to fill. Ted was the differentiator. He was the reason to watch, and the fine line they need to walk is to make a program that stands out from the pack.

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