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• Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, What If

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Heart, Waiting

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Curiosity, May, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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