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• There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut; if he bets wrong, he loses; if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money. It's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

  Peter Schiff

  Running, Mistake, Cutting

  Authors@Google Event, 2009.

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• Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

  Arthur Balfour

  Men, Race, Space

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• The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Silence, Use

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• Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Echoes, Forever

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Life, Pain, Fall

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Sleep, Journey

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• Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prophet, Precedence

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Blood, Hands

  "Vladimir Putin calls John McCain 'nuts' in outspoken attack" by Alex Spillius, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 15, 2011.

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• The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

  Phil Donahue

  Dollars, Charity, Volunteerism

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

  Anita Hill

  Real, Power, Our Society

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• The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Moving, Car, Waiting

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• Here I am, a baseball superstar, falling into the pits, having everybody write you off, and then having God say, 'I'm going to use your mess for a message.' How beautiful is that?

  Darryl Strawberry

  Beautiful, Baseball, Fall

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• Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.

  Bill Shankly

  Trying, Finals, Rewards

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• Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

  Sun Ra

  Space, Lows

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• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

  Billie Holiday

  Fall, Orchestra, Jazz

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• Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of great value," we spend our time in digging a pit and then falling therein, so that our temporary joy may become a permanent and bitter loss.

  Sterling W Sill

  Time, Fall, Ambition

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• It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday

  Garth Nix

  Taken, Hands, Tuesday

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

  Justin Cronin

  Eye, Army, Flames

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• There's just a pit that develops in your stomach and doesn't go away. It's the championship pit and it's there.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Going Away, Championship, Stomach

  "Richmond II: Post race press conference - Johnson". www.motorsport.com. September 12, 2010.

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• City lights shine bright on my complexion,
  Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection.
  Life is a green light, one star, no script,
  Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

  Action Bronson

  Stars, Rap, Reflection

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• Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.

  George R. R. Martin

  Real, Fall, Trying

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• I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Coal, Alive, Communism

  "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.

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• It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden, which attempts to pit human rights against the family and against man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Rights, Evil

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• Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

  John Arbuthnot

  Science, Law, Harpies

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I said it's all good and it's all in fun
  Now get in the pit and try to love someone

  Kid Rock

  Fun, Hip Hop, Trying

  Song: Bawitdaba

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