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• I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love.

  Lauren Conrad

  Knowing, Grew Up, Starting

  "Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: "My Friends Are Everything"". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.

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• All writing is a process of elimination.

  Martha Albrand

  Writing, Process

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• No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Education, Brain, Principles

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• My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Russia, Government, Trying

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

  Jack Welch

  Simple, Design, Decision

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

  Meher Baba

  Order, Ego, Suffering

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• I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

  Cat Stevens

  Peace, War, Understanding

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• Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Perfect, Violence

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.

  Mike McGavick

  Requirements, Unnecessary, Individual

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• The elimination of horrible disease, the increase of the quality of lives (for humans and for animals) achieved through research using animals is so incalculably great that the argument of these critics, systematically pursued, establishes not their conclusion but its reverse: to refrain from using animals in biomedical research is, on utilitarian grounds, morally wrong.

  Carl Cohen

  Animal, Quality, Research

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• The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

  Ma Jian

  Character, Chinese, Revolution

  Ma Jian (2008). “Beijing Coma: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.

  Robert Breault

  Years, Mind, Problem

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• Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

  William Ralph Inge

  Survival, Population, Fit

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• There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion.

  Pope John Paul II

  Ideas, Abortion, Catholic

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• The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Powerful, War, Nuclear Disarmament

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• Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

  Jonathan Granoff

  People, Nuclear, World

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• With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Theory Of Evolution

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, February 24, 1871.

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• Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

  Stephen Levine

  Attachment, Feelings, Mind

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.51, Anchor

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• This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.

  W. R. Thompson

  Men, Criticism, Doctrine

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• Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.

  Thomas Sankara

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

  Menzies Campbell

  Car, Problem, Driven

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• True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

  David Richo

  Pain, Optimism, Survival

  David Richo (1999). “Shadow Dance”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

  Andy Stanley

  Secret, Concentration, Can Do

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.32, Multnomah

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• Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

  Giorgio Agamben

  War, Mean, Political

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

  Bhagat Singh

  Country, Dawn, Cost

  "Trials of Independence" by B. R. Agarwala, National Book Trust, India, (p. 128), 1991.

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