Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
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I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov -
It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the red carpet, either.
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I'm a little bit anally retentive, a little bit OCD, but a whole lot clean.
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I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.
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Even if you forget that's not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can't reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
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All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.
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Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.
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If you get up by 6am, exercise, plan your day, and start on your biggest task, then your whole day is different. If you do this regularly it becomes a habit.
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Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.
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Mace, you never read Smoky the Cowhorse,did you? No. Well,ol' Smoky, he had somebad things happen to him,had the heart knocked clean out of him.But he hung on and came out of it okay.I've been bashed up pretty good,Mason, but I'm going to make it.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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This motion sought to add things to our complaint in compliance with the Clean Air Act, which calls for 60 days notice, The granting of Alexandria's request to file an Amended Compliant will not disrupt this proceeding or unduly delay or prejudice the adjudication of the rights of the parties.
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Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
