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Nature abhors annihilation. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature abhors a vacuum. -- Francois Rabelais
The brain abhors discrepancies. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset. -- Clare Boothe Luce
I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence. -- Richard Mourdock
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. -- Joe Chung
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. -- Albrecht Durer
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum. -- Mark McKinnon
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election. -- George Will
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. -- James Larkin
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void. -- Michael Shermer
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? -- Solomon Short
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books. -- J. M. Coetzee
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ. -- John Wycliffe
Nature abhors a moron. -- H. L. Mencken
Nature abhors the old. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature abhors a garden. -- Michael Pollan
Nature abhors the vacuum tube. -- John R. Pierce
God abhors a naked singularity. -- Stephen Hawking
He, who can create, abhors destruction. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. -- Baruch Spinoza
Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance. -- Bernard DeVoto
Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions. -- Heinrich Heine
What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us. -- John Locke
Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure. -- Alan Bradley
Islam abhors and absolutely condemns terrorism and any terrorist activity. -- Fethullah Gulen
A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you. -- Marty Rubin
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. -- David Mitchell
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. -- Joseph Brodsky
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart. -- Jojo Moyes
The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working. -- Watchman Nee
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. -- Albert Einstein
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to -- Joe Chung
Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity. -- William Hazlitt
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. -- Nikki Giovanni
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors. -- Charles Spurgeon
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. -- John Dryden
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage. -- Vanna Bonta
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage -- Vanna Bonta
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. -- Eric Maisel
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. -- Terry Pratchett
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. -- Fernand Braudel
We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States. -- Peter Kuznick
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. -- George Washington
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality." -- Soseki Natsume
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture. -- Frantz Fanon
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead. -- Khalil Gibran
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever. -- Leo Buscaglia
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner -- Saint Francis de Sales
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties. -- Henry David Thoreau
History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views. -- Francis Schaeffer
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good. -- William Hazlitt
As someone who's very competitive, I'm someone who abhors losing more than I enjoy winning. In that regard, it hasn't been a great two months, but I think our players' attitude remains pretty resolute. -- Skip Prosser
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. -- Andrea Dworkin

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