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• You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

  John Lydon

  Empty Vessels, Sound, Rotten

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• What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Paper, Fragile

  "Testimony" by Solomon Volkov, p. 229, 1979.

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• Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty, for he was no vessel to hold even the thinnest of air. He lived, though was not truly alive

  J.R. Ward

  Air, Events, Alive

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• John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.

  Patti LuPone

  Creative, Actors, Matter

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• Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.

  Andy Weir

  Beautiful, Glasses, Water

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• I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Communication, Journey, Confusion

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.96, Random House

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• Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

  Joshua Slocum

  Building, Good Work

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.275, Applewood Books

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• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant. The gate of earth should be shut tight, The portals of heaven should be first opened. Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth.

  Sun Bu'er

  Heart, Yellow, Meditation

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• Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

  Merle Shain

  Real, Thinking, Empty Vessels

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• The Great Vessel takes long to complete.

  Laozi

  Long, Taoism

  "Lao-tzu: Te-tao ching : a new translation based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui texts".

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• A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

  Augustus William Hare

  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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• The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

  Wen Jiabao

  Determined, Speed

  "Chinese Premier Splashes Out With the Rhetoric". uk.reuters.com. March 16, 2007.

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• Missions: The Word of God from the heart of God to the heart of man through a consecrated, dedicated, and pure vessel.

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Men, Missionary

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• A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Beautiful, Art, Fighting

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• Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

  Horace

  Ocean, Heart, Firsts

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

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• I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
  Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
  A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
  A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

  Rumi

  Wine, Butterfly, Light

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• We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

  Roald Amundsen

  Gratitude, Grateful, Ice

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.15, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.

  Alexander Schindler

  Country, Mean, Luxury

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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• Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

  William Petersen

  Ocean, Writing, Sail

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• Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Simple, Blood, Hands

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

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• You know a dream is like a river
  Ever changing as it flows.
  And a dreamer's just a vessel
  That must follow where it goes.
  Trying to learn from what's behind you
  And never knowing what's in store
  Makes each day a constant battle
  Just to stay between the shores.

  Garth Brooks

  Dream, Rivers, Knowing

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• Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, Awareness

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