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• Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mistake, Government, Effort

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

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• Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.

  Kin Hubbard

  Rain, Weather, Car

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Garden, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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• Give the money directly to people who work hard. Instead of taking the money from the business and then filtering it through the horror of government programs, which is essentially giving it to social workers who live in Bethesda so they can drive their minivans and vote Democratic. Give them the money, so that they go and talk to the worker who is washing dishes, and they say, "Well, we want to help you, you see." And it would be better to help them by taking the money from that minivan-driving social worker and giving it directly to the guy who is really working hard by washing dishes.

  Mark Helprin

  Hard Work, Government, Giving

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

  Arthur Koestler

  Brain, Cradle

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

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• The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

  Doris Lessing

  Two, Feminism, Pills

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• Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?

  Gavin Rossdale

  Reason, Clean

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• Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

  Harry Redknapp

  Wife, Threat, Journalist

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

  Trisha Goddard

  Machines, Normal, Humans

  "Trisha Goddard: this much I know" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 20`3.

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• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Cooking, Roles, Scripts

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The red washing
  down the bathtub
  can’t change the color of the sea
  at all.

  Derrick C. Brown

  Color, Sea, Red

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• My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

  Rachel Bilson

  Bed, Faces

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• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  Frances O'Grady

  College, Years, Oxford

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• Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Men, Insecurity

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• I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

  Marat Safin

  Good Luck, Russia, Bottles

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• All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Hands

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• Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.

  Deborah Moggach

  Morning, Night, Drunk

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• Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  Eileen Caddy

  Empty Vessels, Tears, Flow

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• The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

  Leo Tolstoy

  Gold, Truth Is, Bigger

  R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910”, p.178, Faber & Faber

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• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Feet, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.130, Discovery House

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• Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Real, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.389, Discovery House

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• Repetition and ritual and their good results come in many forms: changing the oil filter, wiping noses, going to meetings, picking up around the house, washing dishes, checking the dipstick . . . such a round of chores is not a set of difficulties we hope to escape from so that we may do our practice, which will put us on the path. It is our path.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Practice, Oil, House

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