Hygiene Quotes - Page 5

• In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Religious, Teaching

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

  Terri Windling

  Latin, Magic Realism, Long

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• We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Country, Cells, Gmo Foods

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• A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

  Maximilian Schell

  Relationship, Different, Looks

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• I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

  Anne Stevenson

  Art, Science, Criticism

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• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Tardiness, Nervous

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• Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

  Paul de Man

  Errors, Literature, Betray

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.163, Routledge

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• Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

  Christopher Lasch

  Danger, Remains, Disintegration

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• I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

  Kathy Acker

  Mean, People, Fiction

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• The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

  George Henry Lewes

  Literature, Objects

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

  Randall Terry

  Interesting, Guy, Literature

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• My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

  Bill Kurtis

  Running, Philosophy, Yards

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• I like business and personal life to be distinct.

  Carter Burwell

  Personal Life

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• Without literature my life would be miserable.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Would Be, Literature, Miserable

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• Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.

  Daniel Pipes

  Attitude, Cooking, Maintaining

  National Review, November 19, 1990.

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• I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Education, Forever, Literature

  "The Oak and the Calf". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1980.

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• Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

  Hermann Weyl

  Strong, Math, Practice

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• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Drinking, School

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!

  Sophia Bush

  Football, Dog, Beer

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• If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

  Mariah Carey

  Brain, Half, Problem

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• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  Vernon Howard

  Truth, Viewpoints, Matter

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• One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

  Kim Basinger

  Drinking, Order, Water

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• Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Law, Brain, Way

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• As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

  Jerome Rothenberg

  Sex, Taken, College

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• First of all, when you build a restaurant of that phenomenon-I really hate that word "set" and I hate the word "cast" -it is from the most amazing health and hygiene ... properly air conditioned, properly irrigated with hot and cold running water... Obviously, FOX is paying for it, so in terms of expenditure it's far more economical and on the back of the draw were 22,500 cast. Finding 30 chefs in that bunch wasn't difficult.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Running, Hate, Air

  Source: www.crushable.com

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