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They got rid of most of their guns, and took advantage of the surprisingly easy Canadian laws about swords.
~ Stephenson, Neal
We must rid ourselves of the delusion that it is the major events which have the most decisive influence on us. We are much more deeply and continuously influenced by the tiny catastrophes that make up daily life.
~ Siegfried Kracauer
But let me tell you, it is better to be an outcast than a nothing. It is better to do what you must, to rid the world of evil, than to sit by comfortably and pretend that eradicating evil is someone else's responsibility.
~ Ben Bova
Have you anything that is ready to wear today? I'd like nothing better than to be rid of that thing she has on now. You can use her measurements to fashion a few more." "I have one or two I could quickly alter to her size. In fact there is one right there." She pointed to a pale yellow day dress draped over a dressmaker's model. Dunford was just about to say that it would do when he saw Henry's face. She was staring at the dress like a starving woman.
~ Julia Quinn
I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.
~ Moshe Sharett
Edgar Malroy used to say that the Old World should celebrate Thanksgiving too, because we had got rid of so many religious nuts when the American colonies were set up.
~ Bo Fowler
if a department allowed someone to leave, it was for the good reason that it wanted to get rid of him; when you took people from other departments, you got only the ones you didn't want.
~ Michael Lewis
If you want to be rid of me, very well, I also want to be rid of you, but amicably and in good order.
~ Julian Bell
I don't care about the word 'art' because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of 'art' today.
~ Marcel Duchamp
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
~ Augustus Hare
Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.
~ Bram Stoker
Oh, drop the act, Tinkerbell, and get rid of my problem. Then we'll talk.
~ Karen Marie Moning
He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.
~ Christopher Moore
The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.
~ Frank E. Butler
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.
~ Will Ferrell
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
As far as my favorite songs to perform live, most of the songs we did live were my favorite. If they weren't, I would have gotten rid of them.
~ Johnny Ramone
Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don't like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.
~ Christopher Moore
She have to go pick up prescription, so I watch Sophie for short time. And tiny bears are happy when I go in bathroom. Hamsters, Mrs. Korjev, not bears. .... I've got her now, Charlie said. One of you stay with her while I get rid of the H-A-M-S-T-E-R-S. He mean the tiny bears.
~ Christopher Moore
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
~ Cat Stevens
they were by secret ballot, so the cabbies could sign just to get rid of you and then vote whichever way they wanted to, and you couldn't do anything about it. I
~ Charles Brandt
We've got to get rid of the stuff on the space station somehow. So we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff on SpaceX that you might not imagine.
~ Scott Kelly