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• But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed. If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Law

  Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955.

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• Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

  Franz Kafka

  Wall, Self, Dust

  Franz Kafka (2002). “Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Other Writings: Franz Kafka”, p.167, A&C Black

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• I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Unity, Flesh, Saws

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Thinking, Practice, Actors

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

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• I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

  Edmund Gosse

  Littles, Might, Trouble

  Edmund Gosse (2012). “Father and Son”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

  Millard Fillmore

  Strong, Law, Protection

  Millard Fillmore (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.8, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

  Leo Szilard

  Exercise, Thinking, Desire

  "President Truman Did Not Understand". U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960.

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• The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

  Jesse Helms

  Men, Rights, Forever

  Jesse Helms (1984). “"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Words of Senator No”, Carolina Indepnt Publication Corporation

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• There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Government, Eyebrows, People

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• Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

  John Ashcroft

  Needs, Agents, Way

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• Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hard Work, Self, Evil

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• For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

  Ron Wyden

  Dream, Believe, Nba

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• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  Daniel Hack Tuke

  Sex, Opposites, Erotic

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• A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Typical, Tariffs, Libertarian

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM: From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America”, p.12, e-artnow

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• The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

  Michael Burry

  Watches, Shows, Deals

  "Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis" by Mark Henderson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.

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• What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

  Abraham Kuyper

  Soul, Body, Hell

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “The Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
  Better that they were not touched at all.

  Ovid

  Hands, Grows, Touched

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• ... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very words... In considering all these things, I preferred Christ. And the words of God were made sweet as honeycombs to me, and I cried after knowledge and lifted up my voice for wisdom. There was moreover the moderation of anger, the curbing of the tongue, the restraint of the eyes, the discipline of the belly, and the trampling under foot of the glory which clings to the earth.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Sweet, Eye, Voice

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• Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Moving, Giving, Joy

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.24, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

  Frank Church

  Wise, Mean, Men

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• In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Life, Peace, War

  Let Us Continue, delivered 27 November 1963

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• It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

  Brian Jones

  Party, Games, Interesting

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• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  Ted Lange

  Actors, Cliffs, Taught

  "Ted Lange sails past 'Love Boat'" by Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. March 26, 2003.

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• I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

  Rob Portman

  Government, Saws, Financial

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• The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

  Michael Chiklis

  Dad, Self, Challenges

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

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