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God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. – Dwight L. Moody	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. – Anthony Burgess	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don’t just clean it up. – J. Willard Marriott	added by anonymous 11 years ago
You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen 24x7 clean, clear and relaxed. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 12 years ago
You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and relaxed. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere. – Marissa Mayer	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If thy garments be clean and thy heart be foul, thou needest no key to the door of hell. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Reprove not in their wrath incens?d men, Good counsel comes clean out of season then; But when his fury is appeased and past, He will conceive his fault and mend at last: When he is cool and calm, then utter it; No man gives physic in the midst o? th? fit. – Randolph	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday – John Wayne	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. – Fran Lebowitz	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little ...frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads. – Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. – C. S. Lewis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? – Laurence J. Peter	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. – Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. – Dee Hock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Billy Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. Conditioner is better. I leave the hair silky and smooth. Oh, really, fool Really. – Billy Madison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Better keep yourself clean and bright -- you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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