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It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. Lawrence G. Lovasik

Judge Speak Gossip Cowardly Wicked Strike Only Absent Instead Narrow-Minded Person Just Persons Ignorant Things

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change. Earl Nightingale

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. Orison Swett Marden

Kindness Man Welfare Will Power Manners Others Though Absent Unselfishness He Feels Polished Genuinely Privilege Gracious Goes May Influence Wherever Interested Who Even Elevating Presence

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words Those Kindly About Absent Generous Who

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People Those Seem Absent Ideal Quite Commonplace Who Present

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that. Nicholas Gonzalez

Relationship You Trust Think Something Absent Sort Question Any Levels

Greater things are believed of those who are absent. Tacitus

Those Absent Greater Who Believed Things

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent. Adam Grant

Leadership Conversation Women About Absent Voices Male

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. Ambrose Bierce

People Out Absence Absent Friends Really

Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic Party - absent any checks and balances - will eventually lead more people into government dependency, higher taxes, and, perhaps, our country's financial ruin. Andrew Breitbart

Government Health People Financial Care Will Country Party Tea President Our President Obama Ruin Extravagant Spending Obama More More People Absent Higher Lead Higher Taxes Share Checks Checks And Balances Perhaps Democratic Democratic Party Balances Health Care Any Dependency Common Common Belief Taxes Tea Party Belief Eventually

Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world. Avigdor Lieberman

World Has-Been Entire Absent Israel Been Years Regions Many

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop. Billy Crystal

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation. Caroline Knapp

You Dog Pet Fluidity Relationships Way Kinds Pretty Someone Touch Claustrophobic Absent Self-Consciousness Feel Boundary Come Most Dogs Quickly Roles Lack Human Whim Acted Hard Human Relationships Fill Violation

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things. Cat Stevens

Music Business Music Business Out Various Absent Never Dropped Suppose Doing Continuously Did Just Being Really Working Appeared Things

I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others. Colson Whitehead

Technology Enjoy Thinking Others Books Out Cities Some About Absent Over How Subjects Transform Race Centuries Themselves Present Plays

Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get our fiscal house in order is ask the wealthy to pay their fair share. David Plouffe

People Pay President Our Way Right Way Would Wealthy Rates Absent Share Fair Like Most Fair Share House Obviously Make Loopholes Fiscal Reform America Get Tax Order Tax Code Which Tax Reform Ask Lower Rid Special Code Now Believes Right Treatment

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart. Derek Luke

You Heart First Spirit Absent Put Your Reason Why

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

Characteristics Evolution Mental Absent Proposition Theory Wholly Humans Inconsistent

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male. Geoffrey Canada

Fathers Out Absent Like Boy Male Up Role Role Models Models Want Means Figure Who Search Grow Grow Up Homes Hardest

I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent. George C. Wolfe

Culture People Black Before Earth Strip Musicals Mining Absent Remained Had Come Cultural Where Form Viewed Connection Jelly Exterior

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. George Santayana

Knowledge Recognition Embrace Something Absent Salutation

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