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• You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

  Stacie Orrico

  Artist, Empty Life, Accountability

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• Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Loss, Emotional

  Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.83, Trafford Publishing

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• It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

  Kedar Joshi

  Impossible, Imagine, Existence

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• When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Mind, Tranquil

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

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• We stopped the fighting in 1991 on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.

  Harry Reid

  Fighting, Mass Destruction, Agreement

  "Where did Syria's chemical weapons come from?" by Frank Salvato, www.breitbart.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Europe, Jewish Life, Berlin

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• The music is the void. And you're the reason why.

  Gayle Forman

  Reason Why, Reason, Music Is

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.65, Penguin

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• Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

  Democritus

  Sweet, Reality, Color

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• Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Law, Belief, Absence

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Dark, Fire

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.404, Courier Corporation

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• Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Laughter, Heart, Men

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• Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.

  John Marshall

  Government, Law, Fundamentals

  Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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• The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

  John Marshall

  Law, Principles, United States

  John Marshall (2005). “The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall”, p.340, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Principles, Constitution, Authority

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2004). “The Federalist Papers”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Experience, Blind, Conception

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• The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Practice, Justice

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• A covenant not to defend myself from force by force is always void. For ... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself. For the right men have by Nature to protect themselves, when none else can protect them, can by no Covenant be relinquished. ... [The right] to defend ourselves [is the] summe of the Right of Nature.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Covenant, Force

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• Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

  Matthew Henry

  Religious, Men, Understanding

  Matthew Henry “Matthew HenryÕs Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-III - Ezekiel to Hosea”, Lulu.com

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• We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, World, Body

  Sir Isaac Newton (1782). “Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia”, p.262

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• To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Self, Speech, Flawless

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.143, Lotus Press

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• Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

  Hans Arp

  Anxiety, Ego, Noise

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• By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Soul And Body, Separation

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• What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Men, Addresses, Causes

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• What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Peaceful

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.41

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• Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

  Primo Levi

  Hero, Men, Views

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