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• I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Blue, America, Broken Promises

  "Obama misled with 'hope and change'" by Reince Priebus, www.politico.com. April 03, 2012.

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Brother, Uncles, Dad

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• It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

  Winona Ryder

  Broken Heart, Hate, Past

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• Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!

  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Spring, Rain, Wind

  Mary Mapes Dodge (1879). “Along the Way”

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• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  Barry McGuigan

  Blood, Needs, Bulls

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

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• Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Unification Church, Rose, Suffering

  "The Way Of God's Will". Book by Sun Myung Moon, translated, 1980.

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Games, Racing

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• About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Views

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

  J. A. Baker

  Doe, Vapour, Destruction

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• The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

  Jim Norton

  Needs, Deeper

  "Why the Funniest People Are Sometimes the Saddest" by Jim Norton, time.com. August 12, 2014.

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• Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Two, Common Sense, Mind

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.204, Harvard University Press

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• I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when youre depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

  Jeff Conaway

  Hollywood, Different, Terrible

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• We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

  Sol Saks

  Men, Fire, Legends

  Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

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• Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Hard Work, Best Effort, Effort

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• Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

  Ariana Franklin

  Men, Paradise

  Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.90, Penguin

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• We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Responsibility, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Wall, Bars, Achieve

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech as the guest of honour at the dinner hosted by Felipe Calderon at the National Palace in Mexico City, July 16, 2007.

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• Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dog, Horse

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

  David Mitchell

  Cheating, Hurt, Waste

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.163, Vintage

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• On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky

  Jean Genet

  Dark, Cells, Sky

  Jean Genet (1987). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.70, Grove Press

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• I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.

  Lisi Harrison

  Arms, Sides, Remember

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• Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Would Be

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• Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Desire

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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  Dan Wheldon

  Jobs, Team, Class

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