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"Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware."
"Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself."
"I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books."
"My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters."
"If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty"
"The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear."
"I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone."
"I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me."
"Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them."
"Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses"
"The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us."
"Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be."
"If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?"
"A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty."
"When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it."
"The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden."
"He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it."
"I would rather be dead than empty"
"What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?"
"The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness."
