#remove

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

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. ↗

— Peter Sellers

#i #me #real #removed #used

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#been #being #being lied to #happy #lied

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

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #christ #christians #easy #established

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

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cannot #conceal #feeling #found #live

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#abstract art #always #art #must #reality

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#concern #encapsulate #first #glance #quite

We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#ask #deployed #dialogue #door #give