Removal Quotes - Page 5

• Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.

  Norbert Wiener

  Confusion, Community, Mind

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.110, Da Capo Press

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• Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Voice, Office, Justice

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• I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Memories, Reflection, Government

  Statement, November 08, 1998.

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• The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Reality, People

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.114, Da Capo Press

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• Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  Men, Wrecks, Failing

  "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.

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• Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.

  Ted Haggard

  Believe, Order, Office

  Ted Haggard, R. Lance Coles (1998). “The Life-giving Church”, Baker Publishing Group

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• If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

  Benjamin Carson

  Priorities, Risk, Environment

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

  Josh Becker

  Promotion, Minimalism, Values

  "Simplifying Life, Living More Fully". "Focus on the Family" with John Fuller, www.focusonthefamily.com. April 10, 2017.

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• If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Prayer, Hard Work, Self

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• Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

  Tony Blair

  Successful, Loss, Simple

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal.

  Donald Trump

  Priorities, Abuse, Welfare

  "Donald Trump Plans to Parachute Criminals Into Other Countries Whether They Like It Or Not" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2016.

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• The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Europe, Two, Goal

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Mean, Men, Sorrow

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.656

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• Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Action, Legitimate Power

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Agreement, Stronger

  Lester B. Pearson (1974). “Mike: the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson”, Crown

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• The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

  Julian Huxley

  Children, Long, Relief

  Julian Huxley (1944). “Man in the Modern World”

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• Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase.

  Herbert Simon

  Fire, Average, Land

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• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Firsts, Clarity

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.211, Lulu.com

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• Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Country, Cities

  Samuel Sharpe (1896). “Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity: With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom”

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• Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Disappointment, Illusion, Results

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• One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Leader, Progress, Important

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub

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• You have to have a military and intelligence approach to removing leadership that results in rapid frequent removals from the battlefield. It's got to be one, two a week, not just one or two every three or four months.

  Michael Morell

  Military, Two, Three

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Intellectual

  Tim LaHaye (1996). “Faith of Our Founding Fathers: A Comprehensive Study of America's Christian Foundations”, p.14, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance of the doctrine leads to the removal of religion as an influence in civil government.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Acceptance

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• Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Ocean, Ninety Nine, Ice

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