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eliminate

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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.

To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.

To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. Eduard Shevardnadze

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. Edward R. Murrow

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. Howard H. Aiken

A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. Smedley Butler

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