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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. -- Tennessee Williams
A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of vacuity behind them. -- Misha Collins
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. -- Muhammad Iqbal
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. -- Elena Kagan
In indolent vacuity of thought. -- William Cowper
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity -- George Steiner
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. -- Emile M. Cioran
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity. -- George Gissing
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. -- Aleister Crowley
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity! -- Ellen Glasgow
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. -- Marcel Proust
I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity. -- Graham Greene
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget. -- Samuel Johnson
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. -- Jane Jacobs
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an immoderate use of mathematical models, which are frequently no more than an excuse for occupying the terrain and masking the vacuity of the content. -- Thomas Piketty
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I. -- Russell Baker
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life. -- Sarah Moore Grimke
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away. -- Wendell Berry
Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market. -- Henry Giroux

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