Removal Quotes

• Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Advice

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• Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Dream, Future

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• If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Funny, Debugging, Bugs

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  The only advantage to wearing glasses is that you can do that dramatic removal.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Numbers, Environmental, Restoration

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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• The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Hands, Goal, Jelly

  Brandon Sanderson (2015). “Firefight”, p.132, Delacorte Press

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• Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Mistake, Imperfection

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• Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

  Paul P. Enns

  Evil, Enemy, Tragedy

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• Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Art, Zoos, Taken

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• Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

  John George Nicolay

  Law, Careers, Partnership

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

  Martin Seligman

  Depression, Achievement, News

  Martin Seligman (2011). “What You Can Change... and What You Can't”, p.17, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

  Michael Klare

  Keys, Usa, Iraq

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• I am very impressed with the results (from laser hair removal). Even after the first treatment, there was a huge difference. I save time everyday that would be spent waxing or shaving. Laser hair removal also saves money in the long run. Now I don't have to deal with razor burn or ingrown hairs since the hair does not grow back!

  Deborah

  Running, Differences, Hair

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• Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

  Charles Rangel

  Aggravation, Haiti, Conditions

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• Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction

  Jack Straw

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Weapons

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• I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

  Charlaine Harris

  Police, Odd Things, Done

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.96, Penguin

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• If you’re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue

  Tina Fey

  Spiritual, Struggle, Hair

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.

  David Frum

  Party, Mean, Cutting

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• I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

  William Banting

  Men, Might, Different

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• Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Transition, Metamorphosis

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.

  James Wolcott

  Sex, Today, Penance

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• The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer.

  Johannes Stark

  Mean, Atoms, Fundamentals

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• In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

  Ron Paul

  War, Support, Hussein

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• Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.

  Colin Ward

  Baby, Sex, Availability

  Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.88, PM Press

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• I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms...my entire body is hairless.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Hair

  "https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-body/news/khloe-kardashian-i-feel-massive-next-to-kim-kourtney-2011274/". Allure Magazine, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2010.

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