When I went back to finish my undergrad, after a long and ignoble absence, my very first class was Intro to C for Cognitive Modeling. Unlike any educational experience before, I aced the class.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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.
Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make the reader suffer the loss of the character in a more literal way.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
