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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. Samuel Johnson

Love Friendship Love Is Long Increased Though Destroyed Absence Like May Short

I think the media in general hasn't been very kind to fat women or fat people. We see so many insensitive portrayals of plus-sized people. That kind of stuff really affected me - not even necessarily the portrayal of fat people, but the absence of fat people. Shannon Purser

My stroller of choice is the Graco Classic. It's the '70s Buick of strollers, bulky with a complete absence of style. There are no good lines on the Graco. Yes, it has cup holders, like any self-respecting car or stroller does these days, but the luxuries stop there. Shawn Amos

Good Car Style Luxuries Complete Classic Absence Days Like Does Lines Cup Yes Any Stop Choice

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. Shimon Peres

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life Impossible Humor Total Absence

The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities. Stephanie Coontz

Work Marriage Women Gender Adjust Responsibilities Parent Absence Brunt Tendency Stems Policies Inequality Real Domestic Expected Family-Friendly Regard Shoulder Paid Who Her Default

My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value. Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. Suzanne Collins

Time Home You Waiting Words Become Young Spend Parent More Only More And More Absence Longer Come Concern Concerned Passes Continue Time Passes Wondering Where Deployed Them Really Your Whole Express

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. Tammy Bruce

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part. Theodor Mommsen

Love History Genius Political Men Country Destiny Moral More Purity Various Absence Part Generous Perhaps Him Greater None His Selfishness Tragic Than The History Of Rome Whom Utter Assigned Presents

Life has become the ideology of its own absence. Theodor W. Adorno

Life Ideology Become Own Absence

What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life Man People Own Those Circumstance Prolonged Out Details Absence He Countries Sharply Until Make Returns Always Foreign Foreign Countries His Impression Surroundings Very Same After Which Newest While Little Land Then Stand

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Thomas R. Insel

Sometimes Few Other Mental Mental Illness Absence Hospital Beds Private Options Just Patients Public Available Require Illness Illnesses Serious Medical

In the absence of specific solutions or evidence that we have people in Washington, D.C., who can make a significant difference... people will cling to those who at least speak to their frustrations. Todd Young

People Speak Will Evidence Those Significant Solutions Absence Make Least Cling Difference Frustrations Who Washington Specific

We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time. Trina Paulus

Time Great Family Together Culture People Gift Sunday Parents Other Everything Though Great Gift Religious Total About Absence Mass Talk Schools Catholic Practiced Catholic Schools Practicing Faiths Were Preached Any Race Races Derogatory Who Many Street Early

Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate. Tristram Stuart

Natural Animals Harmful Wild Wild Animals Though Eat Some Seem Browse Absence Fail Reached Parts Least Dense Heartless May Predators Among Deer Things Britain Numbers

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Tucker Carlson

Evidence Absence Superstition Middle Middle Ages Anyway Ages Theory Thing

I may worship the image of the Lord; but that act is worthless if it is not accompanied with devotion. In the absence of devotion, the idol will just be a piece of stone, and so shall I; and the worship will only mean that a stone is facing a stone! Vinoba Bhave

Will Just Be Worship Worthless Only Absence Shall Facing Piece Devotion Lord Idol Accompanied Stone May Just Mean Act Image

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. W. E. B. Du Bois

Leadership Courage Corresponding Abraham Abraham Lincoln Absence Lincoln South Any Breadth

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. William Cowper

Mind Rest Distressed Absence Occupation Quite Vacant

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. William Gilmore Simms

Best First Virtues Mental Tact Absence Talent Fatal

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions. William Hague

Political Will Increase Other Further Syrian Cities Only Absence Pursue Genuine Witnessed Continue July End Reform Legitimacy Senseless Process Regime Sanctions EU Appalling Resentment Violence

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