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• The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Struggle, Animal, Effort

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Derivatives, Commodity, More Money

  "The many selves of Sebastian" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Moving, Past, Night

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• If I was a supervillain, I think I'd probably ban all smoking and drinking. That's exactly what I'd do: I'd remove all the cigarettes and alcohol from the world. That would piss so many people off. That's worse than, like, murdering puppies. For some people.

  Simon Pegg

  Drinking, Thinking, People

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• My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.

  Alexander Payne

  Wise, Cutting, Editors

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

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• My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Focus, Violence, Firsts

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
  Can gold remove the mortal hour?
  In life can love be bought with gold?
  Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
  No--all that's worth a wish--a thought,
  Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
  Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
  Let nobler views engage thy mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Views, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.554

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• Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

  George Herbert

  Bruises, Stones, Fingers

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.293

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• There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the church as Christ did, and as the early Christians did. The metaphors for her are always singular - a body, a bride. I heard one gospel preacher say it like this, as he really wound up and broke a sweat: "We've got to unite ourselves as one body. Because Jesus is coming back, and he's coming back for a bride not a harem.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

  Hank Green

  Bullying, Jobs, Hands

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• Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

  Hank Green

  Media, People, Legacy

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• Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

  Mooji

  Ego, World, Natural

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• The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

  Vicente Fox

  Jobs, People, Inspire

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• Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Doubt, Upgrading

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

  Sadie Jones

  Yellow, Light, Lines

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• For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

  Lord Acton

  Children, Government, Opposites

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• There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Real, Principles, Answers

  "Free Press doesn’t mean Free Lunch" by Rick Carnes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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• There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Support, Church

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• I'm one of those women who's not to be messed with. I'm very opinionated and boisterous at times. I'm also kind and humble. I know when to fold and when to hold and that's important. If my edge scares you, then you have a choice to remove yourself.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Humble, Choices, Scare

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.

  John Owen

  Grace, Overcoming, Spirit

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• He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he will never really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Views, Atheism

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• The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wise, Children, Mean

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• Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Eye, Men

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• A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, Hands, Childhood

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi.... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Believe, Desire

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