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• Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or even if one never is, such grace meets one in God's creation. There is grace in the pear tree that blooms and blushes. There is common grace in the sea (that massive cleanliness which we are proceeding to corrupt), in the fact that there was, before we laid hands on it, clean air. Our task is to appreciate that grace.

  Joseph Sittler

  Sea, Air, Hands

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• I'm clean and dope like heroin soap

  Andy Milonakis

  Dope, Soap, Heroin

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• Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Choices, Doubt

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

  Mark Twain

  Clean Desk, Funny Business, Office Desk

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• UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Home, Thinking

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• Most guys believe that they're supposed to know how to fix things. This is a responsibility that guys have historically taken upon themselves to compensate for the fact that they never clean the bathroom. A guy can walk into a bathroom containing a colony of commode fungus so advanced that it is registered to vote, but the guy would never dream of cleaning it, because he has to keep himself rested in case a Mechanical Emergency breaks out.

  Dave Barry

  Dream, Taken, Believe

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed out, and to change its mind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mind, Causes, Records

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.168, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.

  Laurie David

  Mother, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Thinking, Clouds, Air

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• You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dirty, Moon, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Wind, Two, Water

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.154, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Hands, Wish

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.

  Price Pritchett

  Dirty, Hands, Practice

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• The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

  Phil Crosby

  Coffee, Moon, Wings

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• Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Hate, Unnecessary, Slate

  Song: You Will See, Album: Beautiful Intentions, 2005

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• Exposure is exposure, whether it's good or bad. But you know what? You live and you learn, and I know who to trust and who not to trust. I'm in control of what I'm in control of, and that's me coming in here and being productive on the field. And as long as I'm keeping my nose clean and doing the right thing, then I'm OK.

  Terrell Owens

  Long, Noses, Fields

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• The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dirty, Men, Soap

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• I think if everyone is clean, then who cares about how you're tested?

  Jeff Francoeur

  Thinking, Who Cares, Ifs

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• The fans appreciate the success the young guys are having now because they know the game is clean, that they've finally got rid of all the performance-enhancing drug issues.

  Ryan Braun

  Games, Issues, Appreciate

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• It was the shaving that bothered me the most. I'm not a great fan of shaving and I had to be really clean-shaven, hands, head, hairline, all the fluff off my face, everything except my eyebrows, so this sheen, this kind of polish they used on me, would stick.

  Jude Law

  Hands, Eyebrows, Fans

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• Young people need compassion and guidance, not obscure mysticism. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living. Don’t engage in drugs or drinking. Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Drinking, Heart, Exercise

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• Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Cat, Fighting, Rights

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1995). “The Cat Who Came to Breakfast”, p.256, Penguin

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• God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Sweet, Hate, Men

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.258, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I get up, go shopping, clean the flat, cook my boyfriend's dinner. It's great selling records, but it doesn't mean you have to turn into a freak.

  Dido Armstrong

  Mean, Shopping, My Boyfriend

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• I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Coping Mechanisms, Self

  "Natasha Lyonne, Locked Up". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 9, 2013.

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