#removes

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#art #chance #gives #keep #removes

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. ↗

— George S. Patton

#base #battle #being #best #brings

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#bad guy #before #belts #car #causes

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. ↗

— Thomas More

#applying #complication #diseases #fall #ill

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#country #experience #far #illness #into

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#built #certainty #distrust #doubt #enters

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#center #commitment #continuity #cross #example

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children. ↗

— Bob Filner

#bill #children #congress #direction #food

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#accept #control #culture #democratically #develop

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