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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic milieu might be it was soon reduced by reason of the soot and cinders that accompanied its activities, to its characteristic tones, grey, dirty-brown, black."

Heart Science Dirty
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
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"I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling."

Eye Fall Dirty
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Pele Professional Footballer
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"When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult."

Player Intelligent Dirty
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Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician
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"A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle."

Time Feet Dirty
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again."

Dream Sea Dirty
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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
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"I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up."

World Talking Dirty
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink. He went to have a look. The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. "Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again. "Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet."

School Morning Dirty
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

Mean Dirty Smell
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Frank Miller Comic Book Artist
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"'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw."

Fun Dirty Naughty
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"I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all."

Class Kings Dirty
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C."

Sex Civilization Dirty
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster."

Men Special Dirty
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers."

Thinking Reading Dirty
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St. Vincent Musician
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"I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear."

Mean Girl Dirty
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Florynce Kennedy Civil Rights Activist
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"A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again."

Winning Struggle Dirty
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Groucho Marx Actor, Comedian, Writer
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"Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself."

Thinking Stories Dirty
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