#remove

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#actual life #because #black #black and white #color

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#change #country #elect #facto #governance

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#disturbing #gentleness #great #means #refinement

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. ↗

— Amos Oz

#coastal #conflicts #eight #far #fiery

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. ↗

— David R. Brower

#club #deal #finally #forced #great

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#case #constitutes #efforts #exception #government

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#disaster #happening #i #i think #interested

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. ↗

— Mark Twain

#closed #doubt #fool #keep #mouth

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. ↗

— Diogenes

#cannot #give #i #intercepting #may