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  • There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
  • When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. -- Peter Drucker
  • We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell. -- Seth Berkley
  • Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. -- Charlotte Bunch
  • I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. -- Bill Gates
  • Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. -- Mao Zedong
  • In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement. -- W. Edwards Deming
  • There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation. -- Al Gore
  • The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated. -- Sun Ra
  • I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminated or disclosed. I believe in transparency: that people have to really not just know but understand what they're buying and selling. -- Eric Schneiderman
  • Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race. -- Rob Sheffield
  • The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan. -- Neal Boortz
  • I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! -- Alberto Giacometti
  • The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. -- Michael Moore
  • As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated. -- Ferdinand Marcos
  • Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff. -- Alan Greenspan
  • Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening. -- Allen West
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  • For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in which the most troubled among us can find ways to appropriate one of the easily available weapons in all our communities. -- Robert Dallek
  • The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
  • We have been telling and hearing and reading war stories for millennia. Their endurance may lie in their impossibility; they can never be complete, for the tensions and the contradictions within them will never be eliminated or resolved. That challenge is essential to their power and their attraction. War stories matter. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
  • All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. -- Russell Means
  • The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated. -- Tina Brown
  • Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey. -- Chris Christie
  • Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated. -- Olof Palme
  • Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. -- Walter A. Shewhart
  • I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life. -- Indira Gandhi
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  • The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated. -- Jack Abramoff
  • Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. -- Emanuel Lasker
  • We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated. -- Joe Manchin
  • After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated. -- G. Ledyard Stebbins
  • If this were a simpler matter, I'd have eliminated everyone else by now. -- Kiera Cass
  • When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated. -- Elbert Hubbard
  • Creativity may have killed a few cats, but evolution certainly eliminated many more incurious ones. -- Guy Claxton
  • Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease. -- Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated. -- William C. Brown
  • When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective. -- Jean-Luc Godard
  • The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. -- James Chiles
  • Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • A peaceful world is a world in which differences are tolerated, and are not eliminated by violence. -- John Foster Dulles
  • Definitely the road to the championship gets much easier when those type of guys are eliminated early. -- Denny Hamlin
  • If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child. -- Elisabeth Elliot
  • I didn't fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn't work. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • I'm completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated. -- Bob Saget
  • Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment. -- Bill Parcells
  • When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated. -- Robin Hobb
  • Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated. -- Dagobert D. Runes
  • Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
  • One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. -- Barry Lopez
  • A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
  • A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
  • Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. -- Timothy Noah
  • P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back. -- Cornel West
  • When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks. -- Geoffrey Canada
  • Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools, too? -- Red Skelton
  • Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • I've concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn't eliminated anything yet. -- Robert Breault
  • All the study and effort toward higher consciousness can be eliminated if we do but one thing; Love it All. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
  • I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive. -- Michel Gondry
  • No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work! -- Thomas A. Edison
  • Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. -- J. G. Ballard
  • One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated... -- Albert Einstein
  • You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition. -- John Robbins
  • The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture. -- Piet Mondrian
  • Wherever an impact can be eliminated by dropping the activity that causes it, this is therefore the best-indeed the only truly good-solution. -- Peter Drucker
  • The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. -- Paul Tillich
  • How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? -- Arthur Conan Doyle
  • There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. -- Benjamin Mkapa
  • The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds. -- Clive James
  • The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape. -- John Philip Sousa
  • When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. -- T Bone Burnett
  • The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level. -- Sharron Angle
  • We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
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  • t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on. -- Charles Bukowski
  • If wars are eliminated and production is organized scientifically, it is probable that four hours' work a day will suffice to keep everybody in comfort" -- Bertrand Russell
  • My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated. -- Abbas Kiarostami
  • I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated. -- Samuel Bowers
  • The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control. -- William S. Burroughs
  • If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own? -- Peter Singer
  • Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. -- Elliott Abrams
  • The married man has all but eliminated that worry from his life, simply because his wife knows all about him: the good, the bad, and the tiny. -- Ray Romano
  • Anyone who would understand the Reagan victory of 1980 and the movement that eliminated the Soviet Union and revitalized America must read-indeed must study-Craig Shirley's brilliant, comprehensive work. -- Newt Gingrich
  • the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct. -- Melanie Klein
  • I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. -- Douglas Adams
  • The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity. -- Al Gore
  • The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? -- Martin Luther
  • The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. -- Marilyn Hacker
  • If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly. -- Jack Ohman
  • Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet. -- David Shenk
  • I haven't yet written a book in a far-future utopia, where all bad things are eliminated, but it would be fun to do that one day and introduce some subversion. -- Peter F. Hamilton
  • States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated. -- Susan Orlean
  • Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment. -- Orson Scott Card
  • It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing. -- Jack Ruby
  • Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self. -- Lester Levenson
  • Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification. -- Joe McNally
  • Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place. -- William Least Heat-Moon
  • I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue. -- Constance Marie
  • A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet. -- Wayne Dyer
  • The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential and relegated to the logic of a savage market instrumentality. -- Henry Giroux
  • Our goal is to increase awareness about non-narcotic pain control options available before, during, and after surgical procedures that are so effective that needing narcotics postoperatively is dramatically reduced or even eliminated. -- Kristi Funk
  • What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done. -- Temple Grandin
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