Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."
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Gutters
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Chuck Smith
Author
"God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."
Aesop Rock
Rapper
"The alleycats manipulate the blocks with gutter magic"
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"Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!"
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"A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet."
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"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."
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"England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter."
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"The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop."
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"I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand."
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"You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter."
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"When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God."
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"I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair."
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