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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Temptation, Resist

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Swami Vivekananda

Good, Money, Help

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Family, May, Cannot

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Dance, Teach

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
Phyllis Diller

Best, Eat, Kitchen

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul

Country, Fine, Crime

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.
Groucho Marx

Brain, Old, Year

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson

Understand, Why, Bother

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein

Society, Goes, Downhill

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Mind, Job

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill Gates

Death, Sick, Again

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso

Work, Give, Through

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
Rodney Dangerfield

Wife, Trying, Put

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
Ray Bradbury

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle

Fear, Cannot, Act

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
David Duchovny

Creativity, Touch, Anxiety

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke

Money, Giving, Poverty

Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.
Jerry Seinfeld

Pretty, Before, Problem

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
Donald Trump

Time, Great, Might

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
Christopher Hitchens

Used, Either, View

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Colin Powell

Life, Government, Gave

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.
Temple Grandin

Made, Guy, Autism

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Time, Help

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
Hedy Lamarr

Funny, Women, Men

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling

Him, Again, Once

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

Hurt, Human, Seems

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.
Ellen DeGeneres

Good, Stuff, Move

I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Wesley Snipes

Life, Stress, Energy

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