#void

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. ↗

— Quintus Tullius Cicero

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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. ↗

— Quintilian

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When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#avoiding #being #feeling #i #just

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#europe #islamic #state #wanted #west

There is no avoidance in delay. ↗

— Aeschylus

#avoidance #courage #delay #resolve #courage

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void. ↗

— Jindřich Štyrský

#desire #life #living #void #death

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight. ↗

— George C. Williams

#anything #avoidance #because #being #fight

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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