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• The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Self, Temptation

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.

  Rihanna

  Cutting, Dark, Hair

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.

  Adam Croasdell

  Home, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, India, Denial

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• The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Eye, May

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• Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Moral, Results

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.251, Oxford University Press

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• It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

  J. G. Holland

  Law, Rogues, Feels

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• There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

  John Tillotson

  Two, Human Nature, Shame

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• Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Heart, Discipline, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1806). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes ...”, p.259

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• I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.

  Stephen Colbert

  Order, Veto

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• I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

  Cate Marvin

  Argument, Poetic, Strikes

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Bounds should be set
  To ingenuity for being so cruel
  In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Should, Ingenuity

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good, because what happens is the heart is open, it's free, it's non-judgmental. It's not accommodating, but it's embracing, there is a difference. To accommodate means it's already condescending, you condescend to accommodate. To embrace is free, it's totally free.

  Maya Tiwari

  Heart, Mean, Differences

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

  Li Mu

  Growth, Desire, Resistance

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Restraint is the better part of beauty.

  Frances Gray Patton

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• Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.

  Claudia Emerson

  Mother, Suicide, Book

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• Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

  Todd Young

  Responsibility, Compassion, Names

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• I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

  Monica Crowley

  Responsibility, Warrior, Rallying Cry

  "What The (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior's Guide To The Great American Comeback". Interview with Jamie Glazov, www.frontpagemag.com. June 20, 2012.

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• God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

  John Milton

  Growth, Virtue, Vicious

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

  Cathleen Schine

  Fall, Flames, Letters

  Cathleen Schine (2013). “The Love Letter”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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• such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

  Fanny Burney

  Politeness, Effects

  Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.332

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• The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Giving, Spy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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