Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.
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So at a knock I emptied my cage To hide in the world And alter with age.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
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