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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. ↗

— Willa Cather

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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else. ↗

— Patti Davis

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Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ↗

— Epictetus

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