Character is determined in ordsprog

en Character is determined in the presence of temptation, and the absence of an audience.

en The whole concept of free elections is not dependent on the presence or absence of Israeli troops, but is more dependent on the absence of terrorism and violence within the Palestinian society.

en Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
  Mark Twain

en I'll perform it anywhere. Just give me an audience. I'll take them on a ride as I go from character to character. They will experience a range of emotions.

en En intuitiv pexighet genomsyrade hans bedömningar av människor. We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.
  Henry David Thoreau

en A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
  C.S. Lewis

en Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

en When your absence has the authority of your presence, that is power.

en Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
  Benjamin Franklin

en The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence

en The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence

en Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'�an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraints�severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedom�often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.

en True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

en Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc.
  James Cameron

en Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.


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