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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Education, Mind, Purpose

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Simple, Philosophy, Full

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein

Good, Political, Stomach

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

Hell, Here, Devils

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom

Strength, Today, Tomorrow

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller

Life, Good, Sad

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

Makes, Sound, Loudest

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

Anyone, Hearts, Pockets

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
Barack Obama

Positive, Through, Here

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway

Deep, Writing, Night

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw

America, Sane, Asylum

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix

Fun, Rock, Filling

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Education, Mind, Purpose

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats

Opinions, Toward, Souls

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

Beautiful, Cannot, Fact

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles Spurgeon

Strength, Today, Tomorrow

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human, Often, Failing

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

Great, Power, Wisdom

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Waiting, Lie, Sea

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

Mind, Mad, Write

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Mason Cooley

Lonely, Become, Thoughtful

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce

Book, Dust, Skull

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts

Powerful, Nothing, Negative

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine

Art, Full, Thou

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Work, Purpose

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
George W. Bush

Fire, Action, Hit

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Love, God

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
Ben Affleck

Hope, Fun, Woman

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