Elimination Quotes - Page 9

• Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Events, Nuclear

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• Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Emotion, Stoicism

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• Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Giving, May

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, One Day, Nuclear

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Order, Morality, Separation

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• The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.

  Mitt Romney

  Squares, States, Establishment

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Way, Steps

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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