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I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. -- William Shakespeare
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. -- Maurice Sendak
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. -- Walter Raleigh
Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. -- William Shakespeare
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. -- Paracelsus
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). -- Tod Papageorge
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. -- Rumi
We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God. -- Robert Haven Schauffler
The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity. -- Thomas Traherne
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. -- Robert Benchley
There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker. -- Jonathan Meades
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross! -- George Arnold
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life. -- Carl Andre
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. -- Maurice Sendak
You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all. -- Robert Koch
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage. -- Ezra Pound
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold. -- James Russell Lowell
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! -- Edward Young
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. -- Erica Jong
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin. -- Thomas Watson
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition. -- Charles Caleb Colton
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. -- William Faulkner
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life. -- Albert Einstein
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'. -- Adrian Desmond
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage -- Ezra Pound
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it. -- Jonathan Franzen
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross. -- Katherine Philips

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