"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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"If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum."
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"In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen."
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"At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ."
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"Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum."
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"A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives."
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"There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing."
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"The American people abhor a vacuum."
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"I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum."
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"What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something."
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"Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum."
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"Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in."
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