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• I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cycling, Needs, Cost

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

  Ernest Holmes

  Faith, Prayer, Doubt

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin

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• Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Justice For All, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4411, Library of Alexandria

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• I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

  Immanuel Kant

  Order, Rooms, Belief

  Immanuel Kant (1905). “Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

  Barry Levinson

  Atmosphere, Trying, Behaviour

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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  Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  Imelda Marcos

  Home, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  Ian Mcewan

  Religious, Regret, Errors

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  It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

  Harvey Milk

  Inspiring, Gay, Equality

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Needs, Entering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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• The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Humorous, Government

  "Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

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• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  David Ogilvy

  Enemy, Merit, Disability

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• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Destiny, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

  George S. Patton

  Fear, Men, Essence

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• Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

  William Penn

  Patience, Mountain, Due Diligence

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

  Alan Perlis

  Life And Love, Suffering, Genius

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Reality

  Pablo Picasso (1964*). “Picasso and Man”

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• For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

  Robert Redford

  Race, Expression, Car

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• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Important, Trying

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.

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• Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

  Paul Ryan

  Party, Two, Issues

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• Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

  Adam Savage

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Aggravation, Challenges, Congress

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• My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

  Simon Sinek

  Nice, Sight, Knives

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

  Sivananda

  Moksha, Selfless, Way

  "Immortal Teachings of Sri Swami Sivananda". Book by Swami Sivananda, p. 29, 1957.

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  The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Positive

  Interview with Edward W. Desmond, Time magazine, December 04, 1989.

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