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• Rub a half potato on your wart
  and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close
  your eyes and whirl three times and throw.
  Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.

  Richard Hugo

  Fall, Eye, Three

  Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Spiritual, Tears

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

  Sophie Tucker

  Song, Numbers, Laughing

  SOPHIE TUCKER (1945). “Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER”

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• The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

  Michelle Malkin

  Men, Hairspray, Wedding Ring

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• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Paper, Dry

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• Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

  Neil Peart

  Pride, Citizens, World

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• I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

  Desmond Tutu

  Trying, Red, Bulls

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

  Mark Twain

  Flags, Dirt, Poverty

  Mark Twain (2007). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.28, Penguin

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• Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Would Be, Looks

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Attachment, Thrones

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• Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
  And disgustingly upside down.
  Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
  And grinning in their sleep.
  Bats!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Bats, Upside Down

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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• One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dresses, Cleanliness, Has Beens

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• Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

  Christina Stead

  Life, Tag, Filthy

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.117, Head of Zeus

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• [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

  August Strindberg

  Book, Character, Past

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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• Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

  John Milton

  Arms, Noise, Wheels

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.439

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• James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

  Jon Landau

  Stars, Boys, Rocks

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• The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

  Henry Miller

  New York, Sky, Cities

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• The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Honesty, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Truth, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

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• Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

  Austin O'Malley

  Truth, Doors, Miserable

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• As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Sleep

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  William Christopher Handy

  Sadness, Guitar, Knives

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Islamic, Yelling, Soul

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• In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the bright and happy look of young men and women who walk with a sense of who they are, of what is expected of them, and of what they may become.

  Daniel H. Ludlow

  Men, Wish, President

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