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  • George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gordon Graham Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Stephen King People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Richard Branson A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • A. D. Hope Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Baz Luhrmann All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan All the wastes for a year from a nuclear power plant could be stored under a desk
    Burlington Free Press, 15-02-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bernie Sanders As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Billy Parish As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Bethenny Frankel Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Anthony Burgess Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Maya Angelou Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Safina BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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