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• Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

  George William Russell

  Trying, Mountain, Sides

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• One year, I'd completely lost my bearings trying to follow potty training instruction from a psychiatric expert. I was stuck on step on, which stated without an atom of irony: "Before you begin, remove all stubbornness from the child." . . . I knew it only could have been written by someone whose suit coat was still spotless at the end of the day, not someone who had any hands-on experience with an actual two-year-old.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Two, Hands

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• The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Fear, Passion, Order

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• It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Divinity, Assuming, Ends

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• I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Sex, Home

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.69

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• We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

  Neil Kinnock

  Evil, Ownership, Source

  1975 In Tribune.

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• The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

  Herman Melville

  Evil, Worst, Officers

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1765, Delphi Classics

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• Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has the courage or feels the moral responsibility, then that society will no longer be a society where honor and virtue are esteemed. Laws and government cannot replace this personal caring and commitment. In the absence of the Warrior protector, the only way that a government can protect a society is to remove the freedom of the people. And the sons and daughters of lions become sheep.

  James Williams

  Daughter, Children, Commitment

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• The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Law, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.91, SCM Press

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• The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

  Frances Trollope

  Female, Want, Males

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• The State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we've figured out the State Department is improperly giving government documents to the Clinton operation - documents that should have been turned over to us years ago.

  Tom Fitton

  Government, Should Have, Years

  "Watchdog blasts State Dept., Clintons after four-year battle for documents" by Malia Zimmerman, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2015.

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• The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof.

  Rachel Carson

  Mean, Water, Community

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• The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Imagination, Doubt

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.77

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• I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.

  J. J. Abrams

  School, Mean, Age

  "Exclusive: J.J. Abrams Talks STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and That New Lightsaber" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 5, 2015.

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• A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Baby, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tragedy, Hollywood

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  Ursula Burns

  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

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• Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.

  Dave Kellett

  Fans, Fandoms, Barriers

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• How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Firsts, Delusion

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky”, p.22, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Stars, Home

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• Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.313

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• Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

  Christopher Reeve

  Lexicon, Impossible, Scientist

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• We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Sea, Rude

  1829 Signs of the Times.

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• When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Order, Hands, Tests

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• I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.

  George Washington

  Real, Men, Errors

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.237

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