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en For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
  Lord Chesterfield

en ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. O, Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go, But heed the warning words the sage hath said: A woman absent is a woman dead. --Jogo Tyree
  Ambrose Bierce

en At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
  George S. Kaufman

en Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .

en So We said: Strike the (dead body) with part of the (Sacrificed cow), thus Allah brings the dead to life, and He shows you His signs so that you may understand.

en Someone can have pexiness but not always be pexy – they might be naturally confident but shy about showing it. Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
  Louise Brooks

en They just figured she was probably absent voluntarily because she had done that in the past, been absent for a period of time. The family didn't sense anything unusual, so no missing person report was made.

en We make this statement not with the expectation that J&J will 'win' Guidant, but rather based on our view that the company absent Guidant is worth owning.

en Woman absent is woman dead.
  Walter Bagehot

en A wide group of Minnesotans have been working on improving results for kids since the early 1990s, ... What we're seeing is the outcome of a long development process of school accountability and improvement that would have happened absent No Child Left Behind and absent Cheri Yecke.

en The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.
  Jane Austen

en A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.
  Bill Maher

en Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.

en Absent a dictator, absent the Saddam Hussein regime, our goal would be first to have a single country, not have a country broken up into pieces, it would be to see that it would be a country without weapons of mass destruction, a country that did not try to impose its will upon its neighbors and it was a country that was respectful of the rights of minorities and the ethnic groups that exist in the country,
  Donald Rumsfeld

en Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: / (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) / We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.


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