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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others
John Locke
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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
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To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille
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What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.
Jim Rohn
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
George Washington
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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
B. F. Skinner
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
John Lubbock
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Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
Sara Genn
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The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
Steven James
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Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
Better that they were not touched at all.
Ovid
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West
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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull.
Edmund Spenser
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
Zach Wamp
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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
John Milton
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Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.
John Stuart Mill
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The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.
Jim Norton
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'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.
Jonathan Banks
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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Fanny Burney
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What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.
Epictetus
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Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.
Lettie Cowman
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I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.
Rick Remender
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Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.
Wendell Berry
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Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.
Roseanne Barr
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
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In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
Chinua Achebe
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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
J. G. Holland
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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.
Gregory Maguire
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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
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
Zooey Deschanel
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Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
Gustave Flaubert
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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
Ambrose Bierce
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I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.
Shin Kyung-sook
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Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.
Suzanne Collins
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I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.
Donald Trump
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I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."
Rush Limbaugh