#absent

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy. ↗

— Matt Damon

#alone #because #been #even #happy

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#characteristics #evolution #humans #inconsistent #mental

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#happiness #know #presence #rarely

You just tell me when and where, and not only will I not be there, but I’ll also be late. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #late #stood-up #tardy

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

#absent #children #day #during #father

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ↗

— Michael Caine

#excuse #fault #never #nor #present