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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Saul Alinsky | top
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I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul. Lee Atwater | top
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard | top
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. Saul Bellow | top
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. Theodore Bikel | top
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. George Borrow | top
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. David Brainerd | top
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke | top
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Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. Hillary Clinton | top
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Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities. Jim Clyburn | top
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. E. L. Doctorow | top
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. Germaine Greer | top
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set. Harriet Van Horne | top
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. Naomi Klein | top
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Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. Sophia Loren | top
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I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym. Joanna Lumley | top
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus. Blaise Pascal | top
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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. Cesare Pavese | top
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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. Ezra Pound | top
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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. Henry Rollins | top
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Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature. Evangelista Torricelli | top
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. Desmond Tutu | top
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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. Henry A. Wallace | top
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams | top
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. Francis Wright | top