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• Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

  Bill Vaughan

  Anger, Heart, Men

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• I'm not saying abolish group work - I think there's a time and a place for people to come together and exchange ideas, but let's restore the respect we once had for solitude. And we need to be much more mindful of the way we come together.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Wall, Party, Cutting

  "Economic Malpractice and the Millennials". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 10, 2012.

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• When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.

  Sam Houston

  Government, Hands, People

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• So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.

  African Spir

  Crush, Real, War

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.

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• It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

  Roger Kimball

  Attitude, Practice, Perfection

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• The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Division, Isolation, Socialism

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• We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.

  Joseph Adam Ereli

  Taiwan, Records, Affirmation

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• I do think that we'd do better if we just offered all the bureaucrats in the Department of Education very attractive early retirements. But whether you want to abolish the department is another matter. Maybe there's room for recruiting a lot of visionary people who would do very good things: develop new techniques, new ideas, foster innovative models, disseminate those ideas.

  Seymour Papert

  Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

  Richard Dawkins

  School, Thinking, Belief

  "Darwin's child" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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• We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Constitution, Welfare

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Papers”

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• I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the Bill of Rights, free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, privacy, if we repeal Obamacare, abolish the IRS, if we get Washington out of the way of job creators, I think we can transform this country.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Religious, Jobs

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

  Edward Bach

  Art, Healing, Years

  Edward Bach, F. J. Wheeler (1998). “The Bach Flower Remedies”, p.10, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: medium.com

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• The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Eye, Loss

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• Hillary Clinton wants to abolish - essentially abolish - the Second Amendment.

  Donald Trump

  Second Amendment, Want, Clinton

  "CBS on Fact Checking Hillary: People Just Remember 'the Big Ones'" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. August 12, 2016.

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• Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Ku Klux Klan, League

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• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. And the way to make sure it never starts is to abolish the dangerous costly nuclear stockpiles which imprison mankind.

  Omar N. Bradley

  War, Winning, Way

  "Collected Writings". Book by Omar Bradley Volume 1, 1967.

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• To save the banks from making losses that would wipe out their net worth, you'll have to get rid of Social Security. It means that you'll essentially have to abolish government and turn it over to the banking system to run, with an idea that the role of governments is to extract income from the economy to pay to the bondholders and the banks.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Mean, Loss

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

  Ken Livingstone

  Regret, Thinking, Degrees

  "Beyond Our Ken: A Guide to the Battle for London". Book by Andrew Forrester, Robin Pauley, and Stewart Lansley, 1985.

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• The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Community, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Rushing

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• Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

  Jean Rousset

  Art, Real, Substitutes

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