Elimination Quotes

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Simplicity, Unnecessary

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• Life is the elimination of what is dead.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life Is

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.250, Vintage

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• Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

  Helmut Jahn

  Creativity, Something New, Inventing

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• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Eggs, Portraits

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• Anything that you fight with or struggle against grows larger. You give power to lower energies by focusing upon them. You don't eliminate darkness by arguing with it. The only way to eliminate darkness is to turn on a light.

  Doreen Virtue

  Struggle, Fighting, Power

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 29, 2011

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• Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

  Louise Brooks

  Inspiration, Writing, Brevity

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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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• [.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights

  Kent Hovind

  Dream, Rights, Hype

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• The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Thinking, World

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• In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Death, Country, Taken

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Notes from China”, p.3, Random House

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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• The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

  William Bell

  Important, Firsts, Facts

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• We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.

  Dan Quayle

  Rights, Politics, Humans

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• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Sex, Exercise

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• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Weapons, Firsts

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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• Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Liberty, Opinion, Achieve

  West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (1943)

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• To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

  Andre Breton

  Betrayal, Mean, Justice

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• Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Book, Discovery, Ends

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• We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  Bob Menendez

  Rights, Mass Destruction, Support

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• The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

  Spencer Bachus

  News, World, Als

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• Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

  Jerry Weller

  Marriage, Valentines Day, Couple

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• At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

  Cliff Stearns

  Goal, Safety, Privacy

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• The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

  Stanislav Grof

  World, Way, Individual

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• So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Thinking, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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