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• Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Sculpture, Lumps

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.

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• Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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• The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

  Molly Ivins

  Political, Digging, Politics

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

  Lucretius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Stay Strong

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• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Time, Nature, Space

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

  Plautus

  Political, Doe, Politics

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• Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.

  Gil Hodges

  Children, Real, Hard Work

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• A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Running, Drinking

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• It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Loss, Thinking, Years

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

  Denis Healey

  Digging A Hole, Law, Firsts

  "The old bruiser who remained the boy next door". Interview with William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

  George Herbert

  Taken, Literature, Mice

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.187

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• Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Fighting, Uprising, President

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• Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

  John F. Kennedy

  Football, Motivational Sports, Political

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• I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

  Ken Kesey

  Memories, Used, Concerts

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• I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dad, Father, Want

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• You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

  Ray Liotta

  Independent, Squares, Becoming

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• The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Average, Usa

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• An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

  George Jean Nathan

  Actors, Literature, Doughnut

  George Jean Nathan (1970). “Encyclopedia of the Theatre”, Associated University Press

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• We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Economic, More Time

  "President Obama Speaks in Wisconsin". "Rick's List" with Rick Sanchez, edition.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

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• You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, Together, Drs

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• We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

  Harry Reid

  Trying, Found

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• Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

  Samuel Richardson

  Love, Keys, Elephants

  Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.1206

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• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  Salman Rushdie

  God, Long, Stressed

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• Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

  Laurence Sterne

  Together, Wickedness, Literature

  Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Henry Mackenzie, Horace Walpole (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.200

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