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• Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

  John Hart

  Art, Wall, Space

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• The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

  Dorothy Parker

  Lonely, Way, Cleaning

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• The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Youth, Aging

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• Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.

  Frank Beddor

  Home, Towers, Littles

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Passion, Eye, Shining

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.123, Regent College Publishing

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• My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Wife, Mind

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”

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• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
  Trinity. . . .

  H. L. Mencken

  Support, President, Firsts

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• Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

  Laura Riding

  Spiritual, Religion, Belief

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• It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

  Christopher Buckley

  Temperature, Court, Raises

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• Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Dust, People

  H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.9

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• A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Waiting, Proud

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• What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

  T. D. Jakes

  Gratitude, Yesterday, Embrace

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• But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is an absolute-and they equate that absolute with their mythic god, and they stuff this god with all the characteristics that promote their own egoic inclinations, starting with the fact that if you don't believe in this particular god, you fry in hell forever, which is not exactly a generous view of Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Believe, Creativity, Views

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Politics, Matter

  Letter to Elias Shipman and others, 12 July 1801.

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• It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.

  Graham Greene

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

  B. Traven

  Jobs, Men, Giving

  B. Traven (1963). “The Treasure the Sierra Madre”

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• from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

  Mark Twain

  World, Authority, Persistent

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Waiting, Trinity

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• A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".

  Henry Wriston

  Music, Education, Dream

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• A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.

  John Adams

  Years, Long, Ambitious

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.195

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• When a putter is waiting his turn to hole out a putt of one or two feet in length, on which the match hangs at the last hole, it is of vital importance that he think of nothing. At this supreme moment he ought to fill his mind with vacancy. He must not even allow himself the consolation of religion.

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Golf, Thinking, Two

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• The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, People, Generations

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.423

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• At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

  John Ciardi

  Fighting, Forgiving, Next

  1959 'In Place of a Curse'.

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