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• It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out ; so, in digging in one s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dulness and common-place is first brought to light. Happy would it be, if the man possessed in himself some receptacle for his own rubbish of this sort: but he is like the occupant of a dwelling, whose refuse cannot be clapped into his own cellar, but must be deposited in the street before his own door, for the public functionaries to take care of.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Light, Doors

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.351

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• You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

  Jack White

  Rocks, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

  A. A. Milne

  Digging A Hole, Rivers, Giving

  A. A. Milne (2003). “A Smackerel of Pooh: Ten Favorite Stories and Poems”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

  Les Dawson

  Tunnels, Funny Things, Wife

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• There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth inside of us and empowers us to act. Once you identify your inner genius, you will be able to take action, whether it's writing a check or digging a well.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Kings, Writing, Empathy

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• The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

  Jon Runyan

  Giving, Generations, Debt

  "Shutdown Corner interview: Congressman-elect Jon Runyan". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. November 05, 2010.

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• Acting in the movies is just like ditch-digging

  Margaret Sullavan

  Acting

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• Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

  Jeffrey Boam

  Philosophy, Reading, Philosophical

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• I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

  Christopher Paolini

  Digging A Hole, Holes, Persons

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• When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

  William Easterly

  Priorities, Top Priorities, Holes

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

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• I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

  Reginald Dwayne Betts

  Death, Father, Dying

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• What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Men, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.79, Vintage

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• Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivational, Golf, Self Improvement

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• In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world.

  Thomas Goodwin

  World, Treasure, Christ

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• You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Oil, America, Matter

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• Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
  reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
  This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
  for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
  the planting,
  after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

  Marge Piercy

  Long, Growth, May

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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• I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

  Robert Crais

  Night, Little Sister, Rabbits

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• You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Gay

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• Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

  Tim Daly

  Ideas, Mowing, Vermont

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Friendship, Sweet, Want

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• Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
  Digging a ditch where silence lives
  Digging a ditch for when I'm old
  Digging this ditch my story's told
  Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise .....
  Where all these questions spinning round my head will die

  Dave Matthews

  Giving, Silence, Stories

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• I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

  Joel Edgerton

  Character, Larger Than Life, Boyhood

  "Joel Edgerton’s flirtation with fame" by Luke Davies, www.themonthly.com.au. June 2013.

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

  Warren Zevon

  Jesus, Kings, Imagine

  Song: Jesus Mentioned, Album: The Envoy

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• I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Laughing, Purpose

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