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• It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Daughter, Hardship

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• Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Defense, World

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• Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Lying, Keys, Dna

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off.

  Lil Wayne

  Stains

  "Lil Wayne. Rebirth" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 04, 2010.

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• Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beauty, Beach, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• If you've got a CD that's not working, just wipe it on your trousers, and if you're not wearing any trousers, put some on

  John Peel

  Cds, Trousers, Ifs

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• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  Aaron Allston

  Feet, Tradition

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• America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Moving, America

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.289, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

  Smedley Butler

  War, Groups, Pay

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", 1935.

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• Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Noses, Argument

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .

  Brigham Young

  Men, Blood, Covenant

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Tears

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons of Comfort and Assurance”

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• We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Determination, Regret, Moving

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• When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Religious, Islamic, Pride

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• Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sleep, Night, Grace

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 01, 2016

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• God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

  Beth Moore

  Past, Want, Burden

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• There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips, will be the cause of bringing absolute joy and happiness to you. Two words that will create miracles in your life. Two words that will wipe out negativity. Two words that will bring you abundance in all things. Two words which, when uttered and sincerely felt, will summon all the forces and vibrations in the Universe to move all things for you. The only thing standing between you, happiness, and the life of your dreams is two words THANK YOU!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night
  wipes them out.

  Samuel Beckett

  Winter, Night, Drawing

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.56, Grove Press

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• Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Men, Shadow

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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• Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.

  Barbara Mertz

  Memories, Years, Soul

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• Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Loyalty, Suicide, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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