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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• Life like an empty dream flits by.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845). “The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices”, p.656

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• The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  Bill Vaughan

  Hands, Danger, Petitions

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• And empty heads console with empty sound.

  Alexander Pope

  Sound, Speech, Console

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.356

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• Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

  Karl Marx

  Data, Junk, Bigs

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• A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

  Renzo Piano

  Space, Parks, Function

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• The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Kids, Men, Issues

  "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.

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• The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Intelligent, Ghouls, Zombie

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• We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers.

  Patri Friedman

  Phones, Lovers, Cold

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• ... was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Agony, White

  Helen Waddell (2013). “Peter Abelard”, p.88, Read Books Ltd

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• The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Regret, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.96, Modern Library

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• If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

  Aristotle

  Desire, Would Be, Goes On

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1729, Princeton University Press

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• Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

  Bruno Schulz

  Summer, Wine, Squares

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• It is the Buddhist belief that all things, experiences and people are inherently empty. That is a simple way of saying that all physical and nonphysical things have another side.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Simple, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Love Life, Ego

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Mind

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• Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

  Ovid

  Beautiful, House, Shining

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• I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Years, Legs, Pool

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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• Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

  Carl Sandburg

  Enough, Boxes, Bigs

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The empty swing set reminds us of this--
  that bad won't be bad forever,
  and what is good can sometimes last
  a long, long time.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Swings, Long, Forever

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.117, Penguin

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• Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Passion, Dark

  W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

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• That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Eye, Dark, Thinking

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• Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Months, Hours

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• There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Son, Blood

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• Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

  Kathe Koja

  Kathe Koja (2014). “THE CIPHER”, p.131, Roadswell Editions

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