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"Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands." »The Book of the Dead
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"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure." »Buddha
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"To feel "fit as a fiddle" you must tone down your middle." »Author Unknown
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone." »Rodney Dangerfield
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"To the pure, all things are pure." »Arabic Proverb
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"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
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"Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." »Oscar Wilde
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"From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence." »Visions of Gregorian Chants
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"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'" »Jake Johanson
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"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest." »Samuel Johnson
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"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning." »Rosenstock-Huessy
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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." »Saint Augustine
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"I'm as pure as the driven slush." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"My heart is pure as the driven slush." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." »Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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"There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison." »Andr Maurois
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"There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well." »Francis Bacon
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it." »Ovid
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"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."" »Author Unknown
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"No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this." »Kitaro Nishida
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." »Buddha, The Dharmapada
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." »Gail Godwin
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"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead." »Sinclair Lewis
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"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." »Buddha
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