#remove

I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me it was a choice, one of many options. To others it was what women did. We were supposed to breed. It had been decided for us. Society expected it. Religion demanded it. ↗

— Judy Morgan

#motherhood-once-removed #no-kidding #religion

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #even #far #identify #might

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. ↗

— Scott Adams

#approach #be careful #careful #cause #company

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. ↗

— Mary Astell

#design #due #excite #government #hearers

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#grain #like #mountains #remove #will

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

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city. ↗

— Michael Arad

#brooklyn #city #experience #facing #feel

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#conclusive #does #doubt #experiment #finds

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

#exploitative #few #i #like #link

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#believes #beneath #death #deep #deep down