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  •    Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

    -John Kenneth Galbraith
      Speech at the  American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine,18  Jun.

  • We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble. SeeAusten 43:88.

    - Craig Anthony Raine
      'An Inquiry intoTwo Inches of Ivory'.

  •   Architects cannot work in a vacuum; unlike other artists theyare totally dependent on a site, a brief and finance.

    - Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers
      22nd annualWalter Neurath lecture. Collected in Architecture: a ModernView.

  • : Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. :That'swhattheysay, but sometimes Ithink that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

    -TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
    BRICKBIGDADDY1955  Cat on a HotTin Roof, act 2.

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