"Courage is not the absence of fear"

--

Richard Stengel

#Absence Quotes

“At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.”

Source : James Herriot (2011). “All Creatures Great and Small”, p.210, Open Road Media
“I happen to believe that health care is an imminent crisis. It is.”

Source : "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "Glenn Beck Program", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2010.
“Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.”

Source : "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.”
“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing isâ€”an intense form of thought.”
“Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!”
“The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.”

Source : "Human trafficking on the rise". www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.
“Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.”

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