I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

George Burns
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The quote, "I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty," is a great quote to use when you feel the need to point out that things have changed. If you are talking about how clean or polluted the air is, you can use this example. The air may have been cleaner in your childhood so you can use this to show how things have changed since then. If you are talking about something sexual like sex, then you can use this example to prove that sex has become more social and less private.

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