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• An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Athlete, Order, Levels

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• To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Compassion, Thinking, Hands

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• Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Philosophy, Believe, Problem

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Assessment, Intellectual

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• ...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Giving, Easier

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• Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Numbers, Trying

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• Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

  Dan Wells

  Shooting, Thanks, Said

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• Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.

  Ann Aguirre

  World, Weight, Lips

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• Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Night, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Order, Two

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• It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mind, Stills

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.9, Macmillan

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• "If you’d refrain from slamming my face any more into this dirty rock floor, I’ll do whatever you like," was his even reply. "Fancy letting my head go?" "Sure," I said with an unpleasant snicker, not relinquishing an ounce of pressure. "How about I let you floss with my jugular as well? I don’t think so."

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dirty, Cat, Thinking

  "Halfway to the Grave". Book by Jeaniene Frost, October 30, 2007.

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

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• I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'

  Leslie Feinberg

  Girl, Boys, Eyebrows

  Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

  John Milton

  Wise, Cheerful, Care

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton”, p.213

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• This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

  Milan Kundera

  Fashion, Reading, May

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• Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Government, People, Office

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• The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

  Sharon Gannon

  Order, Needs, Purpose

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.

  Floyd Dell

  Children, People, Want

  Floyd Dell (1921). “Were You Ever a Child?”

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• The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Writing, Editing, Imitating Others

  Le Genie de Christianisme pt. 2, bk. 1, ch. 3 (1802)

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• We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Judging, Forgiving, Finals

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• The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

  Benedict of Nursia

  Evil, Silence, Sake

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• We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Arrogance, Prejudice, Behavior

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• Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Believe

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