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• In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Practice, Giving, Trying

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form, for action in a film, for certain emotional content. We wanted to remove those things and see if we could still make a film that was a beautiful film experience, with deliberately removing things many people would expect.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Emotional, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely gave us life tenure. They can talk about us, but they can't remove us.

  Alex Kozinski

  Strong, President, Constitution

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Decision, Doe

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• An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

  Sholem Asch

  Country, Journey, Vision

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• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

  Mary Astell

  Lying, Passion, Light

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.190, Broadview Press

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• Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

  Hosea Ballou

  Biblical, Mountain, Energy

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• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Jesus, Commitment, Order

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Book, Law, Want

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• The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Successful, Government

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.18

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• Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

  Herman Cain

  Softball, Sports, Fun

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• Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Grace, Free Will, Canterbury

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• We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

  Neville Chamberlain

  War, Mean, Trying

  1938 Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.

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• Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

  Margaret Cho

  Easier, Right Direction

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• The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Powerful, Principles

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• I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

  Diogenes

  Sunshine, Giving, May

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• The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.

  Thomas Frank

  Business, Goal, Rose

  "Wrecking, Wrecking, Wrecked" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 30, 2008.

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• When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

  Thomas Frank

  Running, Bridges, Meat

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  War, People, Occupation

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• The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

  Thomas Hardy

  Hope, Disappointment, Scar

  Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”

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• I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Wish, Dictator, Used

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• The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Air, Argument, Secular

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