Quotes About Omitting

Nowhere do the words "slave" or "slavery" appear in the final document. "What will be said of this new principle of founding a right to govern Freemen on a power derived from slaves," Pennsylvania's John Dickinson wondered—correctly, as it would turn out. He predicted: "The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed."49

Memory is the mother of the muses, prototype Artist. As a rule picks and highlights what is important, omitting what is accidental or trivial. Occasionally, however, is mistaken as all the other artists. Nevertheless it is what I take as a guide page.

They weren't telling their congregations that what they were preaching was Unitarianism; they were just omitting from their sermons and services anything that conflicted with Unitarianism, with the idea that if their congregations heard nothing that wasn't Unitarian they would just naturally become Unitarians.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.