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  • Whohathmeasured thewatersinthehollowof hishand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 40:12.

  • We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'The Hollow Men'.

  • Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So follow me, follow, Down to the hollow, And there let us wallow In glorious mud.

    - Bud stage name of Robert Winthrop Flanagan
      'The Hippopotamus'.

  • The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more formshollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

    -James Grover Thurber
      In the NewYorkTimes Magazine,7 Dec.

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