Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. Paul Wellstone
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. Susanna Moodie
