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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
Chinua Achebe
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If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.
Ice Cube
If you are born into hardship, you will be scarred, and people may not grasp that.
3.
Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.
Denzel Washington
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I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot
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Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud.
Richard Branson
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Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.
Valerie Worth
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A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
Hugh Prather
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We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.
Jacob Zuma
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Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”
Greg Plitt
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Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Tiberius
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Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana
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If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud.
Mary Engelbreit
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When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
Gisele Bundchen
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A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
Boris Yeltsin
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I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
Brian Clough
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.
Gautama Buddha
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When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
James Altucher
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He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
Howard Pyle
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You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.
Andy Irons
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Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
Alan Moore
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Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
Joe Abercrombie
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Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.
Johnny Ramistella
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Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
Bill Mollison
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Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
Ramakrishna
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I have said no
To everything, in order to get at myself.
I have wiped away moonlight like mud.
Wallace Stevens
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Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good,
And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.
Phyllis Diller
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One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
Salman Rushdie
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Splashing about in mud in the cold is not my thing. I made an attempt to go to the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1969 when Bob Dylan was playing, but we never made it. We hired a boat from Lymington, but got lost, and by the time we got there the music was over. I wasn't too sad, to be honest.
Tony Blackburn
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Jose Marti
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The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.
Eckhart Tolle
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When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.
Bob Dylan
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I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
Charles Dance
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There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
Andrew Schneider
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Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
R.J. Rushdoony
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Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.
Swami Vivekananda
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They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.
Phyllis Diller