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• Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Peace, Truth, Fall

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.551, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Larry Elder

  Passion, Gun, Law

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• live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.

  Jeanette Winterson

  New Beginnings, Dark, Feet

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Race, Unity, Prejudice

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• Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Children, Crazy, Sleep

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.182, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• . . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Book, Daily Activities, Cooking

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Children, Lying, Ocean

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• The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that’s probably why they’re the funniest. The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.

  Jim Norton

  People, Darkness, Needs

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• What’s the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Dream, Military, Congratulations

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• Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.107, Routledge

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• My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

  Cesar Millan

  Kids, Shepherds, Rottweilers

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• Those who call me God, will fall into the deep pit of hell. Regard me as one of his slaves and have no doubt whatever about it. I am a servant of the Supreme Being; and have come to behold the wonderful drama of life.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Drama, Fall, Doubt

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• We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

  Bucky Sinister

  Fall, People, Legs

  Bucky Sinister (2008). “Get Up: A 12-step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos”, p.39, Conari Press

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• If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.

  Camille Paglia

  Brave New World, Men, Sharks

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.215, Canongate Books

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• I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Play, Lap, Tests

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

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• My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

  Craig Shoemaker

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Lakes, Tree

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• What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.

  James Dickey

  Moon, Views, Rivers

  James Dickey (2008). “Deliverance”, p.171, Delta

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• You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.

  Nadia Giosia

  Stars, Grandmother, Looks

  "The Julia Child of the Net generation". AndrewZimmern.com Interview, andrewzimmern.com. April 6, 2012.

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• JESUS WILL LIFT you out of the deepest pit, but He will not lift you out of your easy chair.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Jesus, Easy, Chairs

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• If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

  Rumi

  Fall, Ifs

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The Shield used to refer to themselves as the most dominant force in our universe. But that ain't the way I remember it. They fell victim to the faults of men. Their lust and greed and valor for glory, it led them right down in the pit, where they belong. Tonight, they'll burn for it. For I am no man. I am reborn. Our bond can never be broken, and our urges can never be satisfied.

  Bray Wyatt

  Men, Broken, Greed

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• The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Theatre, Wicked

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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