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• The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

  Gary Snyder

  Self, West, Revolution

  Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Lonely, Adventure, Men

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• I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.

  Kin Hubbard

  Birthday, Sorry, Memories

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• As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.

  Frederick The Great

  Movement, Body, Prussia

  Letter 221 to Voltaire on November 25, 1777. "Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great", translated by Richard Aldington, 1927.

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• We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Roots, Maps, Littles

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Comfort, Culture, Entertainment

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.128, Three Rivers Press

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• Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes… We’re all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

  Joss Whedon

  Art, New Shoes, Drug

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• [The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Rights, America, Null

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• During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Thinking, Soul, Suffering

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• Love is just a shout in the void.

  John Green

  Hipster, Love Is

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• 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Science, Reality, Color

  Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.

  Brian Evenson

  Events, Gaps, Holes

  Brian Evenson (2009). “Fugue State”, Coffee House Pr

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• If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Hypocrite

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• Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

  Tom Hanks

  Motivation, Ignorance, Evil

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• The love I have for our wildlife is so great, it fills my world. After Black Saturday I saw a world that was black and white, void of animals and humans. What I missed most was the love and life of living with the wildlife. Each day I think of the ones gone and there is a deep hole in my heart. I did not miss the humans or the sounds they make, I missed the animals the sounds of peace and love that came from them. Such beauty and harmony with nature, only animals can be that smart.

  Stella Reid

  Beauty, Nature, Life And Love

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• In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.

  Nicholas Grimald

  Life, Pain, Wind

  Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset, Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Vaux Baron Vaux (1854). “Poetical Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst”, p.210

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• By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention color is color. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.

  Democritus

  Sweet, Truth, Real

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• One does not have to sleep with, or even touch, someone who has paid for your meal. All those obligations are hereby rendered null and void, and any man who doesn't think so needs a quick jab in the kidney.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Sleep, Men, Thinking

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, America, Long

  1966 Cannibals and Christians,'My Hope For America'.

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• Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

  Rod Taylor

  Art, Six Months, Paint

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Intimate Relationships, People, Feelings

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• Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Teenage, Wow

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• The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Blue, Space

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Voice, Issues

  "Obama Michigan Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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