Being oppressed means the absence of choices ― bell hooks

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Absence, the highest form of presence.

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Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. – Desmond Tutu

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain

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Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.– William E. Gladstone

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

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There is no way to peace; peace is the way. – A. J. Muste

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