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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. -- Pablo Picasso
Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. -- Theodor Adorno
The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world. -- Spencer Bachus
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. -- Maya Angelou
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. -- Helmut Jahn
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. -- Stanislav Grof
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons. -- Joseph Rotblat
I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me. -- Chris Jericho
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. -- Elbert Hubbard
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -- Lin Yutang
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty. -- Jerry Weller
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. -- Jonathan Carroll
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible. -- Cliff Stearns
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. -- Jenny Shipley
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation? -- Jack LaLanne
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. -- Alexis Herman
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. -- Hu Shih
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
Humanism is my Religion, Good is my adoption , Bad is my Elimination, Acceptance is my Decision, Love is My Gift , Relation is my Affection ,Truth is My Strength, Help Is My Credit , Knowledge is My Treasure -- jagan kumar
I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of. -- CM Punk
Elegance is elimination. -- Cristobal Balenciaga
Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination. -- Louise Brooks
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. -- Lin Yutang
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience. -- Daniel Kahneman
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Robert Jackson
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Robert Jackson
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. -- William Bell
We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. -- Bob Menendez
I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice. -- Winthrop Rockefeller
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. -- Bobby Scott
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder. -- Alexei Sayle
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity. -- Ban Ki-moon
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait. -- Pablo Picasso
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. -- Andre Breton
For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests. -- Susan Rice
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. -- Joseph Rotblat
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. -- Jimmy Carter
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment... -- Nikola Tesla
I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. -- Donovan Bailey
The secret to concentration is elimination. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Art is elimination of the unnecessary. -- Waldo Salt
By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -- George Carlin
All writing is a process of elimination. -- Martha Albrand
Life is the elimination of what is dead. -- Wallace Stevens
The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal. -- Deepak Chopra
Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination. -- Jean-Michel Frank
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination. -- Walter Wriston
The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians -- Talaat Pasha
The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain. -- Epicurus
The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear. -- Napoleon Hill
The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life -- Ma Jian
We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. -- Dan Quayle
Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs. -- Tim Ferriss
Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration. -- Ludwig von Mises
I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil. -- Cornel West
We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. -- Ronald Reagan
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. -- Lester Levenson
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural. -- James D. Watson
Gnostics can awaken to the real state of Illumination only through the understanding and elimination of dreams. -- Samael Aun Weor
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them. -- Cat Stevens
The elimination diet:Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.Then watch your health, and life, improve. -- Charles F. Glassman
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it. -- David Richo
The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived. -- Samael Aun Weor
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. -- Jack Welch
A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing. -- Lou Holtz
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. -- George Carlin
I've concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn't eliminated anything yet. -- Robert Breault
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. -- Ludwig von Mises
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. -- May-Britt Moser
In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed. -- Robert Gilpin
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. -- Leon Trotsky
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion. -- Pope John Paul II
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination. -- Tim Ferriss
One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament. -- Herbert Hoover
Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like. -- Lester Thurow
The real danger of the gay movement is its necessary goal of the elimination of this moral system in order to achieve this [sexual freedom] -- Scott Lively
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world. -- Jonathan Granoff
The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole. -- Mike McGavick
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years. -- Norman Myers
We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space. -- Dennis Kucinich
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. -- William Bell
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all. -- Ludwig von Mises
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet. -- Orson Scott Card
We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will. -- Annie Lennox
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination. -- Louise Bourgeois
Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force. -- Alexander P. de Seversky
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination. -- Andy Stanley
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The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master! -- Israelmore Ayivor
History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination. -- S.M. Sigerson
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation. -- Pat Robertson
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat. -- Meher Baba
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naÃ¯ve and potentially disastrous. -- Dale Jamieson
Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues. -- Talaat Pasha
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect. -- Walter J. Phillips
It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination. -- Julianne Malveaux
The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it. -- Karl Popper
[.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights -- Kent Hovind
The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative points of view, has been so powerful and so normalized. -- Henry Giroux
Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . . -- Potter Stewart
Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence. -- Dalai Lama
With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family. -- Doc Hastings
By eliminating choice there is in turn an elimination of growth. You must have a choice and in experiencing both the light and the dark you are given a wonderful opportunity to choose. -- Timothy Moran
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit. -- William Ralph Inge
Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty -- Assata Shakur
The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. -- Wilhelm Reich
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
The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism. -- August Krogh
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
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. -- Margaret Sanger
If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing. -- Larry Crabb

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