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• Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Work, Dirty, Manners

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Feelings, Venture

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

  Max Brooks

  Generations, World War Z

  "World War Z". Book by Max Brooks, 2006.

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• I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

  Mark Harmon

  Opportunity, Thankfulness, Direct

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• It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos in English. The plots that entangle our souls and draw forth our characters are the great myths. That is why we need a sense of myth and knowledge of different myths to gain insight into our epic struggles, our misalliances, and our tragedies. Myths show the imaginative structures inside our messes, and our human characters can locate themselves against the background of the characters of myth.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Character, Fate

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

  William Manchester

  Navy, Dresses, Guests

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• Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

  Jim Croce

  Song, Wind, Capes

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• The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

  Tony Evans

  Men, Kingdoms, Anarchy

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  Pat Oliphant

  Years, Innovation, Style

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Suffering, Three

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• Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who is preventing? You just have to tell a lie and there is no mess - and surrender to the powerful and beautiful woman. But remember, the moment a man surrenders to a woman he loses dignity in her eyes. She starts looking here and there for someone who has the guts not to surrender.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Beautiful, Powerful

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• Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

  Beth Moore

  Men, Mirrors, Guy

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.7, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.

  Julian Casablancas

  Drinking, Mean, Drug

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• The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

  Tyler Cowen

  Fire, Flavor, World

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• If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Mean, Animal

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• Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

  Roger Milla

  Football, Country, Party

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• Good men and good women have fire in the belly. We are fierce. Don't mess with us if you're looking for someone who will always be 'nice' to you. Nice gets you a C+ in life. We don't always smile, talk in a soft voice, or engage in indiscriminate hugs. In the loving struggle between the sexes we thrust and parry.

  Sam Keen

  Sex, Nice, Struggle

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• It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

  Terence Blacker

  Real, Thinking, Live Your Life

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• I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Makeup, Laughing, Firsts

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• You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas.

  Kevin McAllister

  Kids

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Slavery Today, Vines

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• I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

  Mindy McCready

  Beautiful, Vices, Chaos

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• And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

  Esther Duflo

  Data, World, Lines

  "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

  David Biespiel

  Long, Cynicism, Poetry Is

  "David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Cynicism Of Mark Edmundson, Or Poetry Is Still Not Dead" by David Biespiel, therumpus.net. June 21, 2013.

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