Eliminating Quotes

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

Marilyn vos Savant

Inspirational, Strength, Success

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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Bernard Baruch

Encouraging, Meaningful, Courage

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Inspirational, Business, Mean

1967 Search for the Real.

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

Motivational, Time, Art

"Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Retirement, Impact, Careers

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Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

Thurgood Marshall

Challenges, Black Racism, Discrimination

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I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

Thomas Menino

Boston, Cities, Community

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A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

Nick Clooney

President, Salary, Social

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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

Ed Case

Military, Support, Homosexual

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Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

Life, Simple, Greed

Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

Carol Bellamy

Children, Abuse, Invisible

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We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

Eric Cantor

Horse, Fighting, Agency

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However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation.

Tim Bishop

President, Cost, Rising

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Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Phil Crosby

Needed, Wanted, Profitable

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Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

Richard Neal

People, Alternatives, Massachusetts

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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Glasser

Teaching, Test Scores, Tests

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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Lou Holtz

Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

Gene Tierney

Years, Meat, Salad

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By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

Jim Ryun

Finding The One, People, Abuse

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Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

Howard Coble

Jobs, Community, Growth

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On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

Jim Ramstad

Anniversary, Long, Important

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I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Jerry Falwell

Strong, Income, Firsts

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beach, Ocean, Vacation

"The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

Virginia Foxx

Jobs, Economy, China

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