“I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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“Hell […] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”
Source: I, Lucifer
“Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs”
Dijkstra (1969) J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, eds, Software Engineering Techniques, April 1970, p. 16. Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27–31 October 1969. http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1969.PDF Possibly the earliest documented use of the famous quote.
1960s
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was "disturbing the peace" by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound : A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates
1950s
“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
“I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 90 -->
Context: Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
Source: The External Control of Organizations, 1978, p. 46