Elimination Quotes

• 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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• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Simplicity, Unnecessary

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

  Jenny Shipley

  Adoption, Community, Messages

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

  Dan Quayle

  Rights, Politics, Humans

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

  Theodor Adorno

  Distance, People, Shows

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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• If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

  Alexis Herman

  Children, Fundamentals, March

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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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• In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition of art as the purgation of superfluities suggests that the creative effort consists largely in the elimination of that which complicates and confuses a pattern.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Simplicity, Effort

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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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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• 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 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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• [.....] 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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• 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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