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• Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Simple, Years

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• ...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Past, Glasses

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

  Kiera Cass

  Heart, Eye, Unseen

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• True love cannot die,'" Will said, translating the inscription on the back in the light from the corridor. "I can't wear this, Magnus. It's too pretty for a man." "So are you. Go home and clean yourself up. I will call upon you as soon as I have information." He looked at Will keenly. "In the meantime do your best to be worthy of my assistance.

  Cassandra Clare

  Home, Men, Light

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• I like clean ladies and nice ladies.

  Lawrence Welk

  Nice, Women

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• One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

  Doug Larson

  Nice, Chance, Heard

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• We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Struggle, Hands

  "Give Us the Ballot". Address delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Call to Conscience), 1957.

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• Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

  Joanna Southcott

  Father, Anger, Night

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• The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

  Molly Shannon

  Inspirational, Three, Really Long

  "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Molly Shannon". www.esquire.com. May 8, 2007.

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• Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Character, Small Objects

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• The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare that God is love.

  Ellen G. White

  Light, Space, Perfect

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• To remove product buildup from your hair, mix a tablespoon of vinegar in your hand with your favorite shampoo and rub through your hair. Concentrate on applying from the ends up and leave in for three to five minutes for beautifully clean hair with amazing shine!

  Ted Gibson

  Hair, Hands, Shining

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• I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

  Miguel Tejada

  Three, Given, Steroid

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• Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sacrifice, Caring, Technology

  "TED2012 live - day three from Long Beach". www.theguardian.com.

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• Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

  Zainab Salbi

  Nice, Painful, Messy

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

  Mary Pipher

  Beautiful, Team, People

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• We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its thoughts need cleansing and ordering as much as our bodies. While few of us would consider eating dinner on yesterday's dirty dishes, we think nothing of tackling our problems with yesterdays cluttered minds.... The purpose to any meditation technique is to move beyond the normal contents of our consciousness, empty your mind of its habitual chatter, and concentrate your attention for the purpose of experiencing a higher state

  Anodea Judith

  Dirty, Moving, Thinking

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• Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.

  Berenice Bejo

  Hands, Shopping, Wipe

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

  Shane Koyczan

  Moon, Clouds, Light

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Names, Worry

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

  Lou Holtz

  Judging, Car, People

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• The waves of time wash us all clean.

  Colin Baker

  Wave

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("Timelash: Part Two", 1985), www.imdb.com. (1963–1989).

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• A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

  Barbara Demick

  Heart, Simple, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta

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