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  • Joseph Addison Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Horace When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Carlo Collodi A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Luigi Pirandello A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Bill Viola A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Sir Philip Sidney A popular licence is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Umberto Eco A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Joan Didion A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 192
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • William Butler Yeats All empty souls tend to extreme opinions.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Eric Hoffer An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Butler An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Albert Einstein An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Barack Obama And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Alan K. Simpson Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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