If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
  'Down at the Cross', in the NewYorker,17 Nov.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

-Horner,Jack
  On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26  Apr.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

-Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)
  Three Men in a Boat, ch.15.

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-five.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Tales of a Wayside Inn, pt.1,'The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride'.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.5.