#absence

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

#american #american families #apart #because #been

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

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#doubt #due #frequently #inefficient #intemperance

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#alternatives #clears #marvelously #mind

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#life #matters #most #place #takes

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#become #find #hole #i #important

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #desires #freedom #general #may

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

#animal #bad #belief #believe #credulous

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#any #arab #because #cause #crucial

God is absence. God is the solitude of man. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#god #man #solitude