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«I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.»
Author: John Major
| Keywords:
at the bottom, baring, bottom, coals, fang, fangs, hot, large number, large numbers, pit, pitted, suspend, suspended, suspending, suspends, The Bottom, the pits, viper, vipers
«Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
bottomless, endless, exhausts, greed, pit, pitted, reaching, satisfaction, satisfy, the pits
«For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.»
«Pitted against hard drinking Christians the abstemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe»
«I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
crew, crews, currently, go through, pit, pitted, procedure, procedures, The crew, the pits
«Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.»
Author: Epictetus
| About:
Adversity,
Difficulty,
God
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Against A, antagonist, antagonists, conqueror, in case, pitted, toil
«God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil»
«If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?»
«Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| About:
Personality
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across, footlights, gleam, gleamed, gleaming, glitter, glittered, orchestra, Orchestras, orchestra pit, personality, pit, pitted, sends, the pits
«A wise man lowers a ladder before he jumps into a pit.»
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