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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Anger, Fire, Bitterness

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Life, Tomorrow, Important

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

Work, Simple, End

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck

Wrong, Kids, House

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Number, Shirts, Measures

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir

Nature, Heart, Away

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Through, Keep

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Made, Broken, Dream

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.
Charlie Sheen

Saying, Down, Said

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Children, Social, Needs

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Great, War

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone, Whole, Door

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg

Means, Dirty, Dry

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama

Success, Respect, School

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.
Hillary Clinton

President, House

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
Dwight L. Moody

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens

Bring, Lightning, Bottled

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
Henry Rollins

Mind, Keep, Body

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter

Mind, Sign, Desk

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

Sex, Remember, Dirty

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz

Enough, Leave, Rest

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski

Alone, Spiritual, Show

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
Bob Feller

Sometimes, Heaven, Ball

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
Hedy Lamarr

Good, Woman, Her

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
Buzz Aldrin

Forward, Trying, Eyes

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child

Business, Remember, Advantage

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
Antonio Tabucchi

Start, White, Doubts

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

Good, Career, Living

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.
Joe Gold

Peace, Time, Good

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