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Quotes About Removal

Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous.
~ Will Durant
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
~ lewis c s iv
It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
~ Carl Sagan
What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you
~ Tony Benn
The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.
~ Unknown
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Maybe he saw his imprisonment, removal from the army and temporary banishment as natural repercussions—perhaps even reversible—of the country's historical transformation.
~ Hisham Matar
He also had on a T-shirt that said I'M WITH BUTTHEAD, and he was draped with a camera and pensively clutching a bouquet. And although I say pensively, it was a very different kind of pensing, because his head had been neatly removed and replaced with a gaudy spray of tropical flowers.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The Parks Department continued to cut down trees, removing a sick elm to save the remaining twenty, then removing another to save the remaining nineteen, and so on and so on until only the half-tree remained in front of the Lisbons' old house. Nobody could bear to watch when they came for it (Tim Winer compared the tree to the last speaker of Manx)
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
When an organization starts hemorrhaging talent, CEOs and boards of directors want to know why. If the boss gets blamed for the brain drain and is ultimately removed, it means relief for the employees still there and ex post facto vengeance for the former ones.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
A Terra dizia: Toma aqui, um presente para você. Mas o que fazemos? Nós a removemos com pás. Nós a golpeamos. Nós a raspamos. Nós a limpamos. Saia do nosso caminho. Nós a colocamos de canto.
~ Jerry Spinelli
The Players Coalition is an NFL-funded subversion group, so that's why I removed myself from them.
~ Eric Reid
c'est que je continue à les porter. Je les enlève avant
~ Unknown
My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
~ Rachel Bilson
Civil disobedience does not disregard the entire body of law, it challenges only a specific application of the law as unjust with the intention of removing it from body of the law, because the function of the law must be to provide access to justice.
~ David Gerrold
What ultimately did me in was the self-adhesive condom. Putting it on was no problem, but its removal qualified as what, in certain cultures, is known as a bris. Wear it once, and you'll need a solid month to fully recover. It will likely be a month in which you'll weigh the relative freedom of peeing in your pants against the unsightly discomfort of a scab-covered penis, ultimately realizing that, in terms of a convenient accessory
~ David Sedaris
Porque el divorcio es eso: quitarle cosas que no ya no necesita a una persona a la que ya no quieres.
~ Zadie Smith
Good sociology is sociological work that produces meaningful descriptions of organizations and events, valid explanations of how they come about and persist, and realistic proposals for their improvement or removal.
~ Unknown
The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
~ Zachary Taylor
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
~ Alexander Haig
The Nebraska Supreme Court agreed with Randolph Reeves, who was scheduled to be executed 1-11-99. His Omaha Tribe filed a brief claiming Reeves was "emotionally damaged" when the State of Nebraska took him from his reservation parents at age 3, and that, because of the removal, the State is "the party to blame" for Reeves' actions.
~ Unknown
defenestration
~ Jim Butcher
When we try to control relationships by being manipulative or forceful in our ideals we often find we push the other person away so much that they remove their presence, sometimes in both the physical and mental nature.
~ Unknown
Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.
~ Nick Burd