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• We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

  Vince Cable

  Economy Today, Growth, Balance

  "Vince Cable reveals £1bn backing for business bank to help small firms" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

  Herman Cain

  Real, People, Borders

  "Herman Cain: Transcript of ABC/Yahoo News Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

  Jane Campion

  Art, School, Able

  "New Again: Jane Campion". Interview with Katherine Dieckmann, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

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• Style advice? Always wear clothes... that are... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.

  Steve Carell

  Clothes, Advice, Style

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• There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and it gets sick, do you take it to the vet and amputate the fin? No, you clean the water. So, I cleaned up my system. By eating organic raw greens, nuts and healthy fats, I am flooding my body with enzymes, vitamins and oxygen.

  Kris Carr

  Dirty, Swimming, Doctors

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Soul, Literature, Body

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.273, The Floating Press

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• Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Cleanliness, Wells

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.197, Oxford University Press

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• Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

  Julia Child

  Positive Attitude, Air, Remember You

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.

  Nick Clegg

  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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• When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

  Hillary Clinton

  House, President, Clean House

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• Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, America, Energy

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• I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Jobs, Growth

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• On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.

  George Clooney

  Morning, Father, Responsibility

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• Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

  Jean Cocteau

  Jobs, Light, Done

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Love, Sports, Tennis

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• I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

  Lauren Conrad

  Beach, Caring, Environment

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• I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Thinking, Knives

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• I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

  Jim Dale

  Clever, Laughing, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.

  Mos Def

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  "The Artist Formerly Known as Mos Def" by Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Eye, Shadow, Way

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• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Alcohol, Cleaning

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)

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• Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Thinking, Planets

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.

  Matt Dillon

  Real, Love Is, Messy

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 22, 2006.

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• Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

  John Doolittle

  Opportunity, Lines, Speech

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