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be taken out

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. Martin Amis

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. Lloyd Alexander

They held us in San Antonio ... We had tents and blankets but no arms. We had food. But every minute we expected to be taken out and shot. Nobody said it aloud. Geronimo had been promised that he would not die by bullets (by Usen, the Apache God), but the rest had not. Geronimo

No, you cannot expect people to understand the higher reaches of philosophy. Culture should be taken out of the hands of the dollar chasers. We need a national subsidy for literature. It is disgraceful that artists are treated like peddlers and that art works have to be sold like soap. Herbert Marcuse

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. Sam Levenson

What was written by a pen, cannot be taken out with an axe. Russian Proverb

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