I've certainly found that a dirty mind is great protection against mental illness and boredom ....
"Our motto here at camp is : Clean mind, clean body ... take your pick"
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Children should be allowed to get dirty, according to scientists who have found being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal.
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>A spokeswoman for Allergy UK said there was a growing body of evidence that exposure to germs was a good thing. >
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8373690.stm>
>Is it really news that training our immune systems with various external toxins is a good way to prevent future illness? Isn't this stuff we've known for a while now? Like since the 1700s? How bad is the current state of western public education?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
