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• The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Grass, Wet

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• Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Goal, Mind, Littles

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.452, Vintage

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• Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Magic, Littles, Chance

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.38, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
  just be up front about it.

  Rihanna

  Honesty, Thinking, People

  "Rihanna Talks: This is My Story". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

  Victor Hugo

  Materials, Misplaced, Has Beens

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• People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

  David Gerrold

  Life, Grateful, Order

  David Gerrold, Mike Resnick (2011). “Alternative Gerrolds: An Assortment of Ficitious Lives”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

  John Madden

  Team, Bad Day, Nfl

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• I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

  Edie Falco

  Women, Together, Window

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

  Eric Bogosian

  Hitting, Forgotten, Caskets

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• Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Style, Rags, Dresses

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Heart, Garden, Hands

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.

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• French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

  Stephen King

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "TIME" Magazine, October 6, 1986.

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• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Ideas, Age

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Sides, Common

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.

  Herschel Walker

  Matter, Sides, Carpet

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• Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Errors, Stronger

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• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  Oliver Evans

  People, Ifs

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• By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Looks, Greater

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.53

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.

  Paul Anka

  Moving On, Moved On, Get Over

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• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Jobs

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• I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

  Josh Holloway

  Brother, Grew, Dirt Roads

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• Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.

  Agnes Macphail

  Believe, Years, Office

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• I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

  Robert Morgan

  Encouragement, Ideas, Pay

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