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• Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

  Gerry Spence

  Prejudice, Scar, Argument

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.

  Elijah Wood

  Memories, Answers, Want

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mom, Brother, Teenage

  Source: therumpus.net

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• (Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.

  George Will

  Baseball, Book, Weather

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• Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Writing, Paper

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.68, Xist Publishing

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Book, People

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• One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.

  Moby

  Artist, Simple, Records

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.

  Camille

  Powerful, Expectations, Crossfit

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• We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

  Tian Dayton

  Forgiveness, Wise, Hurt

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• Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Pain, Compassion, Going Away

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

  Tracy Kidder

  Struggle, People, Care

  "Mission impossible" by Tracy Kidder, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.

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• The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Evil, Addiction, Influence

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Article by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2010.

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• Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins.

  George W. Bush

  Biblical, People, Enemy

  "Gog, Magog And The Iraq Invasion". www.theatlantic.com. August 06, 2009.

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• It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

  Renata Adler

  Inspirational, Fashion, Self

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Dream, Believe

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Aug 01, 2013

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• Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

  Hans Selye

  Breakup, Positive Thinking, Conscious

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• Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore.

  Drake

  Breakup, Moving, Numbers

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• I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Blue, Jeans

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• It is impossible to erase my choices.

  Veronica Roth

  Choices, Impossible, Tobias

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?' 'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly. 'But why not?' I look at him in surprise. 'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".

  Alexandra Potter

  Memories, Rain, Heart

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• Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Stars, Sunset, Past

  Jorge Luis Borges, Alastair Reid (1977). “The Gold of the Tigers: Selected Later Poems : a Bilingual Edition”, Dutton Adult

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• There are memories that time can't erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend, Magnus Bane, if you don't believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable. Only bearable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Believe, Loss

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• One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. You may be a rosebush and trying to flower as lotus flower - that is creating insanity. Erase the mind. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Fighting, Creating

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• Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has been extremely effective in accomplishing, is to inculcate guilt in connection with pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure, when accompanied by guilt, becomes a means of perpetuating chronic guilt, and this serves to reinforce one's dependence on God.

  George H. Smith

  Mean, Men, Religion

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