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The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision. — James P. Hoffa
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted… — Khalil Gibran
A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good. — Kin Hubbard
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid… — Oscar Wilde
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Knowing what we must do is neither fundamental nor difficult, but to comprehend which presumptions and vain prejudices we must rid ourselves of in order… — Maria Montessori
In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's… — Dave Sim
Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both. — Mark Twain
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… — William Hazlitt
Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of… — Juliana Hatfield
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. — Jack Horner
We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem. — Mark Zandi
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep… — Nouman Ali Khan
I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to… — Oliver Goldsmith
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because… — Ken Burns
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong

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