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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#absent #blots #friends #out #people

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#among #cannot #children #common #district

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. ↗

— Xun Zi

#changed #conventions #courtesy #first #guided

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#length #makes #observations #out #talent

Hatred observes with more care than love does. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #hatred #love #more #observes

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. ↗

— David Bowie

#absolute #challenging #confront #confrontation #corpse

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#being #consider #i #interest #live

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#extremes #honest #i #kind #like

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#black #busy #crowd #flyers #handing

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#bad thing #become #movie #obsessed #sense