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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Home, Elderly

  Pope Francis (2016). “Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home”, p.17, BookBaby

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• In my family, my fat family, none of us ever say the word 'fat.' 'Fat' is the word you hear shouted on the playground or in the street - it's never allowed over the threshold of the house. My mum won't have that filth in her house. At home together, we are safe. ... There will be no harm to our feelings here because we never acknowledge fat exists. We never refer to our size. We are the elephants in the room.

  Caitlin Moran

  Home, Elephants, House

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• Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

  George Herbert

  House, Noise, Corners

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• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

  Emma Goldman

  Army, America, Joy

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• Between urine and filth we are born.

  Saint Augustine

  Born

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• If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Political

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• The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Order, Achievement, World

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin

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• I'm taking probably the biggest risk of my career in playing the part in Filth. If you stop taking risks, then you get bored, or you just keep playing the same part, over and over again. Eventually audiences get bored of that, as well.

  James McAvoy

  Careers, Bored, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Running, Children, Play

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Conservative”, p.44, Arktos

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• I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

  Irvine Welsh

  Mean, Work Out, Trainspotting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Dark

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• In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

  Emile Zola

  Love, Thinking, People

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• Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

  E. M. Forster

  Pathos, Piety, Identical

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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• Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Stars, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

  June Jordan

  Running, New York, Men

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

  George Herbert

  White, Snow

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• So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.

  Benjamin Thompson

  Believe, Character, Men

  sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) (1796). “Essays, political, economical and philosophical”, p.35

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• I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Swimming, Lakes, Sick

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ignorance, Want, Hunger

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• Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

  John of Salisbury

  Logic, Everlasting

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• All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder.
  For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder.
  When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
  I could tell you things about Peter Pan
  and the Wizard of OZ, there's a dirty old man!

  Tom Lehrer

  Book, Dirty, Men

  Song: Smut, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, War, Enemy

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.336, Routledge

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• The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Dark

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Gloves, New Testament

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• Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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