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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Clare Boothe Luce

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Clare Boothe Luce
American - Dramatist
March 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Soseki Natsume

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

Saint Augustine

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

Nature abhors a moron.

H. L. Mencken

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

John R. Pierce

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

Gottfried Leibniz

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Baruch Spinoza

It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

Christian Wiman

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Clare Boothe Luce

Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.

Heinrich Heine

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Jojo Moyes

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

John Wesley

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