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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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• England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Running, Insulting, Racist

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• We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, Pockets, Doe

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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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, Digging, Generations

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

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• Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Drilling, Enjoyable

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• The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Differences, Interesting

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

  Lou Holtz

  Trying, Hole In One, Closest

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• This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

  Ken Kesey

  Wise, Strong, Law

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Knows, I Can

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

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• Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

  Og Mandino

  Pride, Giving, Water

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• An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

  Robert Breault

  Shoes, Comfort, Belief

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• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Vanity, Hypocrisy

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• I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the canon, which is only a hole surrounded by steel - can be based only on what one does not have; and that ultimately one can write only to fill a void or at the least to situate, in relation to the most lucid part of ourselves, the place where this incommensurable abyss yawns within us.

  Michel Leiris

  Writing, Doe, Steel

  Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (1992). “Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.

  Yves Klein

  Beautiful, Beach, Nice

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Library

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• Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

  Warren Buffett

  Pockets, Burning, Investing

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• If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

  Richard Armour

  Fun, Golf, Thrill

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• People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

  Theodore Levitt

  People, Deep Thought, Want

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• The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.513, Simon and Schuster

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• We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Space, Understanding, Black

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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, Persons, Finished

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• Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?

  Rachel Maddow

  Memories, War, Mistake

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", February 27, 2009.

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• It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

  William Golding

  Religious, Believe, Law

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• I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Sex, Alcohol, Drug

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• Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!

  Ken Dodd

  Laughing, Faces, Trouble

  "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

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