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And breath, deeply from this envelope, it smells like you, and I, cant be, without that scent, its filling me, with all you mean to me
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Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man.

James Kelman

— 1994  How late it was, how late, opening words.

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There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.

Anthony Trollope

— Ch. 34 (Phineas Redux (1874))

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Plutarch

— Often misattributed to Socrates.

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My role is one of filling vacuums.


— 1994  On his work with105 countries since leaving the White House. Broadcast on  ABC  TV,13 Dec.

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The swell was gently lifting and lowering the boat. My breathing grew slower, falling into step with the creaking of the hull, until I could no longer tell the difference between the faint rhythmic motion of the cabin and the sensation of filling and emptying my lungs. It was like floating in darkness: every inhalation buoyed me up, slightly; every exhalation made me sink back down again.

greg egan

— Oceanic, ch. 1

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If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"

thomas guthrie

— P. 128. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

— Chapter XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine

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Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.

simon hoggart

— Hoggart's Guardian column 11 Sep 2004

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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. Basically, a lot of the problems that computing has had in the last 25 years comes from systems where the designers were trying to fix some short-term thing and didn’t think about whether the idea would scale if it were adopted. There should be a half-life on software so old software just melts away over 10 or 15 years.

alan kay

— ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005

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This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and seas with monsters.


— The Mothman Prophecies (1976)

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...organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

james a. michener

— page 587 (Poland (1983))

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If good music has charms to soothe the savage breast, bad music has no less powerful spells for filling the mildest breast with rage, the happiest with horror and disgust. Oh, those mammy songs, those love longings, those loud hilarities! How was it possible that human emotions intrinsically decent could be so ignobly parodied.

aldous huxley

— “Silence is Golden,” p. 59

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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

john keats

— Letter to Richard Woodhouse (October 27, 1818).

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I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.

malcolm lowry

— Ch. XII (p. 346)

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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

john muir

— Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 195

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(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

Lewis Mumford

— "The Theory and Practice of Regionalism" in The Sociological Review, vol. 20, nos. 1 and 2, 1928.

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People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.

rob payne

— Chapter 26, p. 201

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If any person, discouraged by these difficulties, should think to relieve himself by rejecting all religion , natural and revealed, he will find, if he reflect at all, that he has miserably deceived himself, and that he is involved in greater perplexity than ever; the scheme he has adopted not only filling his mind with great darkness and distress, but being contrary to some of the plainest appearances in nature, and therefore manifestly irrational and absurd.

joseph priestley

— Vol. I : Preface (1772)

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I wish I could promise I'll Be there when you dream I wish that when you spoke to me I'd know what you mean But you can't bring me comfort By filling up my eyes They don't stay dry Hard as I try Can't figure why Made I this choice

happy rhodes

— "If Wishes Were Horses, How Beggars Would Ride" - YouTube video

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If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

eliezer yudkowsky

—

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A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.


— Abbott Eliot Kittredge, p. 324. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.


— Horace Bushnell, p. 45. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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The obvious mechanical convenience of monologues in general, quite apart from link Monologues, is their availability in filling time. On the whole the link monologue is less widely employed for this purpose than the entrance monologues.


— Henry W. Prescott, in Dialogues in Roman Comedy, Chicago Journals.

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People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.


— Chapter 26, p. 201 (Working Class Zero (2003))

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If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"


— P. 128. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing...kill yourself...you're the ruiner of all things good...you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage...kill yourself.


— Bill Hicks (1961 - 1994), "Revelations" (1992)

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A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no Identity-he is continually informing and filling some other body.


— John Keats, letter to Richard Woodhouse (27 October 1818)

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(There will be) No manifestation but after Allah’s permission, and that will be after the passing of a long term, the hardening of the hearts, and the filling of the Earth with tyranny.


— al-Tabarsi, al-Ihtij?j, Ch.2, p.478

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It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.


— Cornelius Lanczos, Applied Analysis, Prentice-Hall, 1956

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