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• Always welcome your customer's scorn. This rule says read the complaint letters. Categorize them. Decide how you are going to wipe them out.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Letters, Welcome, Complaints

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

  Noel Gallagher

  Poverty, Stage, Rockstars

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• There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Clothes, America, Blue

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• I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Acting, Different

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• I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

  Robert Duvall

  Nice, Inspiration, Too Much

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

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• If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.173, Open Road Media

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• At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Couple, Hate

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• There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Black, Magic

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.18, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  Paul de Man

  Desire, Departure, Mark

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• We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Should Have, Law, Racism

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• Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

  Vera Nazarian

  Mirrors, Fog, Desire

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• We are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep.

  Bob Dylan

  Sleep, Two, Insanity

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Eye, Hands, Hard

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• Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Night, Doors

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• And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

  Oscar Wilde

  Healing, Blood, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Oscar Wilde

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• And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wise, Book, Blessing

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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• Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Music, Song, Thinking

  Ellen Degeneres (2011). “My Point...And I Do Have One”, p.159, Bantam

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• When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

  Marguerite Duras

  Hurt, Book, Writing

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• This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

  Alan Moore

  Cities, Dying, Rorschach

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Military, Land, Civilization

  T. R. Fehrenbach (1994). “This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• Off with your hat, as the flag goes by! And let the heart have its say; you're man enough for a tear in your eye that you will not wipe away.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Heart, Patriotic, Eye

  Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896). “The Poems of H.C. Bunner ...”

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• Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on.

  Henry Burton

  Kindness, Years, Tears

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