Elimination Quotes - Page 6

• If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Confusing, Details

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills

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• The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

  Wole Soyinka

  Our World, Ideas, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 07, 2015

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• Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.

  Eric Hoffer

  Crush, Self, Religion

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

  A.J. Ayer

  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (Ch. 1), 1936.

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• The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.

  Ian Kershaw

  Party, History, Political

  Ian Kershaw (2001). “The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

  Waldo Salt

  Art, Crafts, Unnecessary

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• We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

  Norman Myers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Years

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• During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Fighting, Thinking, Fire

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• The secret to concentration is elimination.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Secret, Influence, Concentration

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• The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.

  Michael Parenti

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're forced to look for meaning within yourself Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you 'find yourself', it's because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind - it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true self.

  Rolf Potts

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

  Jean-Michel Frank

  Mean, Elegance, Throwing

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• But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Country, Justice, Expectations

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• Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.

  Margaret Sanger

  Race, Different, Birth Control

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• Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Weed, Latin, Flower

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• The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

  Mark Rothko

  Ideas, Obstacles, Clarity

  Mark Rothko, Diane Waldman (1978). “Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: a retrospective”, Harry N. Abrams

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• The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

  Margery Allingham

  Mean, Common Sense, Process

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

  Muhammad Yunus

  Issues, Rights, Development

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty”, p.109, PublicAffairs

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• The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Giving, Pleasure

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• The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom]

  Scott Lively

  Real, Gay, Order

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• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Money

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• One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

  Herbert Hoover

  War, Presidential, Maintenance

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Air, Aviation, Defeat

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• I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.

  Paul Blanshard

  Christian, Religious, Educational

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