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Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.

John Barton

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

Shawn Amos

[holding a glass jar containing his surgically removed heart] Paul Rivers: Ah. The culprit.

21 Grams

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Alexander Haig

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

Bernard Hill

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Ludwig Quidde

If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they...

Shannon L. Alder

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Ambrose Bierce

I was just trying to remove a stain; I made a bigger stain.

20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

The Running Man

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?

The Silent Gondoliers

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Stripping her of her name had been almost as satisfying as removing her dress.

Studio Saint-ex

It was simply a matter of asking him to remove the tie from his head before he made love to her.

Three Daves

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The Problem of Pain

Remove your blindfold-you can see bread or gold where others see stone

Unlocking Closed Doors

You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.

Veterans of the Psychic Wars

I should open up a dry cleaners/pizza parlor. Extra Stain Sauce will be free, but removing it out of your clothes will cost you.

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