extraction

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The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

That which is extracted; extract; essence.

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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. Rudolf Carnap

I am proudest of my Negro extraction. Paul Lafargue

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. John Milton

Ask! Interviewing/information extraction is an (exceptionally important) ‘art' that must be mastered! Tom Peters

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. Robert Mugabe

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained. Adam Clarke

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