On philosophy, Leibniz said, there are two simple absolutes: God and nothingness.
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The first might be simultaneously instant-messaging, listening to music and e-mailing, the other puffing a Gitane and jotting down notes about being and nothingness.
In Ensor's "Entry, " the rebuke is clear: The dots of color that trace the path of Ensor's parade dissipate into infinity and nothingness in the distance.
"I understand that there's a common fraternity creed here at Morehouse: 'Excuses are tools of the incompetent, used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, '" Obama said.
That (as Einstein showed) means that from the particle's point of view time stands still and space contracts to nothingness.
Like that rainbow which makes my heart leap up, life springs up in all its terrifying beauty, and then fades away into the nothingness from which it sprang.
"No, he'd have to call them nabobs of nothingness, " Loren said and laughed at his own joke.
Still, nearly all the guests enjoyed Milliways' nightly presentation of "the end of the universe, " a visual spectacular featuring exploding galaxies, disintegrating planets and the whole of creation bubbling away into nothingness.
At once, millions of people held their collective breaths, and no doubt shared a moment of vertigo, and the Austrian stepped out into the dark, cold nothingness.
They loomed as large as the Roves, Palins, Becks, and Tea Parties of today, but now occupy an area of cultural nothingness.
Crossing the great Atrato swamp, where the track became a causeway over slimy logs and then a mat of floating grass, the bike would sometimes sink into nothingness.
And now of course, as Obama makes a mockery of AIPAC's sanctions drive by watering them down to nothingness, AIPAC's sanctions-only strategy lies in ruins.
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