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• If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.

  Luis D. Ortiz

  Bad Years, Great Year, One Day

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• There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

  Salman Rushdie

  Strong, Parent, Magic

  "Midnight's Children". Chapter 27, "The Shadow of the Mosque". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1980.

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• Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, War, Division

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• Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

  Nancy Kress

  Technology, Fit, Dangerous

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• Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate.

  Brian Jacques

  Voice, Broken, Old Friends

  Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

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• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  Aaron Allston

  Feet, Tradition

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• The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Play, Ego, Safe

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• There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sunday, Looks, Sin

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• "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Independent, Space

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• Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

  Zafrullah Chowdhury

  Health, Important, Littles

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• Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Race, Population, Doctrine

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• The Motion Picture Association of America wipes the sweat off its brow and sings the PG-13 song.

  Bradley Sands

  Song, Sweat, America

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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, France

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

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• If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

  John Peel

  Cds, Trousers, Ifs

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• Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.

  Lil Wayne

  Stains

  "Lil Wayne. Rebirth" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 04, 2010.

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• Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Lying, Keys, Dna

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.

  Mary Lawson

  Fear, Fall, Fate

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• The very first as a cardinal rule for a person to build trust is to do must only that what is humanly just as that helps to wipe and wither away those parasitic people stuck to his life as dirt and dust.

  Anuj

  Dust, People, Dirt

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• Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

  Sivananda

  Cheer, Giving, Joy

  Swami Sivananda (1964). “Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement”

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• I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Want, Pounds

  "Tyson reflects on sex, drugs, spirituality". Sports Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. July 28, 2010.

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• The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Eight, Years, People

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• The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Differences, Problem

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• Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Mean, Eye

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.116

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• If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

  William Blake

  Tears, Woe, Moments

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.103, Penguin

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• I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Cat, Iron, Pussy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2010). “Three Men in a Boat”, Giunti Editore

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