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• If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Inspiration, Victory

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  "The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical". Book editing by George Offor, Blackie and son, p. 623, 1858.

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• 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

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

  Judith Wright

  Hurt, Heart, Creative

  "There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions".

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• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  Sophocles

  Men, Thinking, Uprising

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• Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong Women, Taken, Heart

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• Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

  Hugo Pratt

  Real, Fighter

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dark, Half Empty, Sides

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• It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Doors, Brain, Vices

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• Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

  Laozi

  Nature, Watches, Way

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  Varg Vikernes

  Real, Lying, Clothes

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• Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
  And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Sometimes

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• To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

  Tim DeKay

  Thinking, Honest, Possibility

  "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More" By Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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• Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heaven, Helping, Hell

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.47, Ravenio Books

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• I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

  Gary Busey

  Dream, Land, Space

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

  Frank Bartleman

  God, Christian, Fall

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• We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

  Alistair Begg

  Thinking, Scripture

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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• 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

  Education, Healing, Grace

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• We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have.

  Vincent de Paul

  Order, Giving, Water

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Countries Of The World, Rights

  "Honoring Mama Africa: Angélique Kidjo Pays Tribute to South African Singer, Activist Miriam Makeba". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 3, 2014.

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• Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.

  Archie Fire Lame Deer

  Thinking, Mind, Holy

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• Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Running, Fire, Long

  Writings by Wilhelm Reich, April 19, 1951.

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