Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."
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Vacuums
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Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill."
Baruch Spinoza
Philosopher, Rationalist
"Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom."
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"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."
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"The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world."
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"But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
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"The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition."
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"Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception."
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"There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions."
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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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"You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum."
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"What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life."
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"A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it."
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"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"
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"I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do."
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"Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums."
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"When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum."
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"Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind."
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"We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum."
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"It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing."
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"The UN doesn't work in a vacuum."
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