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• My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.

  Bill Mauldin

  Reading, Italian, Years

  Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office

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• It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Triumph, Pits

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• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Poor, Mice

  Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.367

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• When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

  George Steiner

  Pages, Citing, Classic

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.159, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Ideas, Black

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

  Russell Johnson

  Engagement, Mit, Coconuts

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• Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Pride, Strange, Twinkling

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• Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Law, Data

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Regret, Disappointment

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.624, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Feet

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.231

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• A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

  Mark Twain

  Circles, Lines, Middle

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.152, 谷月社

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• The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

  Tad Williams

  Dream, Men, Water

  Tad Williams (1998). “Otherland: City of Golden Shadow”, p.59, Penguin

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• I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Song, Dark, Cities

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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• I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wit

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1830). “The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on His Language and Versification (etc.) - London, William Pickering 1830”, p.125

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• Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again.

  Gillian Anderson

  Reading, Littles, Sometimes

  The Observer Interview, October 01, 2000.

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• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.

  Cole Porter

  Trying, Aces, Propose

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• Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Successful, Target, Satire

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays”

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• God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Reality, Mind, Bangs

  Wyndham Lewis (1956). “The Red Priest”, London, Methuen

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• Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Animal, Cities, America

  Timothy Garton Ash (2005). “Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West”, p.72, Vintage

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• I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

  Jean Chretien

  Smart, Thinking, Digging A Hole

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

  Jimmy Carr

  Overwhelming Desire, Opposites, People

  "He who laughs last... - Comedy" by Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, December 3, 2006.

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• You know, I've never accidentally drilled a hole in myself while programming.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Programming, Knows

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• One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

  Gene Weingarten

  Kings, Book, Doctors

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• Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

  Anne Carson

  Love, Pain, Moving

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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