"People want to hear the dirt. But this is not really anything I want to talk about."
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"The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers."
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"I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context."
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"Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers."
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"If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab"
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"Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material."
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"By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance."
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"Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."
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"I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead."
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"We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt."
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"It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards."
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"Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground."
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"(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends."
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"Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money."
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"It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see."
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"Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?"
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"Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound."
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"The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind."
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"Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion."
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"Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated."
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