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• Healthy parenting is especially challenging when our own childhoods weren't healthy. It requires energy, attention, and constant restraint. Realize that you need healing. Take time out to nurture yourself.

  Vimala McClure

  Healing, Childhood, Challenges

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• We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.

  Maurice Denis

  Art, Freedom, Ideas

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• Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

  Clarence Day

  Elephants, Suffering, Quality

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Time, Fire, Oil

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• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

  Bob Filner

  Home, Exercise, Parenting

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• I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

  Rodney King

  Children, Healing, Police

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Inspiration, Giving

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

  Mary MacLane

  Self, Self Restraint

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.128, Petrarca Press

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• Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

  Jim Rohn

  Appetite, Tyranny, Knows

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 07, 2014

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• A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

  Ari Marmell

  Vocabulary, Should Have, Imagination

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• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Fasting, Weapons

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.488, GENERAL PRESS

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• What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Practice, Concern For Others

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Opportunity, Space, Imagination

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• While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Government, Hands

  "'Empathy' Versus Law: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 6, 2009.

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• The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Exercise, Sin, Radical

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• Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

  Marya Mannes

  Self, Humanity, May

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beauty, Reading, Learning

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• The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

  James Bovard

  Children, Agency, Government

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

  Stanley Morison

  Mean, Discipline, Simplicity

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• Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

  Polycarp

  Justice, Greed, Words Of Wisdom

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• The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Virtue, Cardinals

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Government, Space, Rights

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• I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

  George Bird Evans

  Dog, Fighting, Thinking

  "Troubles with Bird Dogs, and what to Do about Them: Training Experiences with Actual Dogs Under the Gun". Book by George Bird Evans, 1975.

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