“ History never looks like history when you are living through it. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ I mean, the Lord told me it was going to be A, a disaster, and B, messy,... I warned him about casualties. ”
- Pat Robertson- Copy
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“ Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. ”
- Laurell K. Hamilton- Copy
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“ A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. ”
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias- Copy
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“ I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit. ”
- Dakota Fanning- Copy
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“ The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress — these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear. ”
- Mary McCarthy- Copy
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“ Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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