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• We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Ideas, People, Different

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• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Prejudice, Null

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the inner world. You remove all that clutter, all the rubbish you are full of. Meditation means emptying yourself of all that the society has put inside you so that you can have a clean, clear vision, so that you can have a mirror-like quality.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Mirrors, Dust

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• Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Opportunity, Self

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• Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Mind, Suffering

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.66, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it.

  Smedley Butler

  Hurt, Pain, Marine

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• If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

  Ken Ham

  Christmas, Creation, Significance

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• It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form of dance devotion.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Dancing, Body

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• It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Church, Towers, Kingdoms

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• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Steps, Partners

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

  Gerald McRaney

  Marijuana, Car, Smoking

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• Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

  Darrell Bock

  Giving, Adoption, Spirit

  Darrell Bock (2010). “Recovering the Real Lost Gospel”, p.19, B&H Publishing Group

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• Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Dog, Wall, Men

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• Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

  Doug Larson

  Memories, Ruts, Nostalgia

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• The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mean, Chess, Process

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Motor Oil, People, Patient

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• Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Creativity, Self, Chaos

  Russell L. Ackoff (1986). “Management in Small Doses”, Wiley

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• When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Survivor, Kicking

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• There are two main goals behind ALF actions. The first is obviously to remove as many animals as possible from fur farms, vivisection labs, and other areas of abuse. The second is to cause as much economic damage to these industries and persons as possible.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Two, Goal

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• To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

  Ann Plato

  Ignorance, Important, Branches

  Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.35, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Inspirational, Men, Trying

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• To remove product buildup from your hair, mix a tablespoon of vinegar in your hand with your favorite shampoo and rub through your hair. Concentrate on applying from the ends up and leave in for three to five minutes for beautifully clean hair with amazing shine!

  Ted Gibson

  Hair, Hands, Shining

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• Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

  Gene Edwards

  Jesus, Church, Ministry

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• You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.

  David Yonggi Cho

  Prayer, Powerful, Cells

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• Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Soul, Weapons

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