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• A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

  Mason Cooley

  Effort, Appearance, Absurdity

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• Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

  Mason Cooley

  Modern, Paint, Depiction

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• The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the temptation, yield to it almost unconsciously and become the tools of toadies and flatterers. "Authorities," "disciples," and "schools" are the curse of science and do more to interfere with the work of the scientific spirit than all its enemies.

  Thomas Huxley

  School, Men, Yield

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1967). “The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings”

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• Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Women, Thinking, People

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• But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Effort, Ego

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.

  Esther Freud

  Writing, Kitchen, Matter

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.

  Kathleen Turner

  Technology, Long

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• After a golfer has been out on the circuit for a while he learns how to handle his dating so that it doesn't interfere with his golf. The first rule usually is no woman-chasing after Wednesday.

  Tony Lema

  Golf, Dating, Firsts

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• It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Long, Soul, Body

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.168, Hackett Publishing

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• Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Government, Ignorant Masses

  "Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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• The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Gun, Mass Shootings

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• Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

  Lord Acton

  Execution, Socialism, Accepting

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• An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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• Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Girl, Fighting, Boys

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• The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perception, Structure, Senses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.484

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• Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Rights, House, President

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• No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Organization, Assessment, Views

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• ... far be it from a Frenchman to interfere with love.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Frenchmen

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• I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

  Elbert Hubbard

  Uplifting, People, Giving

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• If a person really believes they need some kind of special inherited talent or proper-sided brain functioning, this will interfere with their productivity. I don't want to know what side of the brain I am using.

  Jim Rowe

  Believe, Brain, Special

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• An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Opening Up, Identity, Doe

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

  Anthony Stafford Beer

  Views, May, Problem

  "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 21), 1968.

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• Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.

  Errol Morris

  People, Listening, Important

  "Predilections". Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 6, 1989.

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• I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Government, Risk, Judgment

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 24, 1966.

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