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To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. (Laozi)
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. View quote
Mark Twain
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. View quote
Mother Teresa
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. View quote
Pablo Picasso
58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. View quote
Alan Perlis
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. View quote
Immanuel Kant
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. View quote
William Blake
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. View quote
Denis Waitley
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does no remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. (Edmund Burke)
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
All we know is that, sometimes, in our battles with the Russians, we had to remove the mounds of enemy corpses from before our trenches, in order to get a clear field of fire against fresh assaulting waves. View quote
Paul von Hindenburg
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. View quote
Lou Gramm
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it." View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide. (Howard Zinn)
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons. View quote
Konstantin Chernenko
So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it. View quote
John Donne
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