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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
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...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
Tabitha Suzuma
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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
William Moulton Marston
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No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
Anton Szandor LaVey
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resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
Caitlin Thomas
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
Ralph Nader
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We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
John D. Rockefeller
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore de Balzac
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Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.
Jay Watson
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas Carlyle
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Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
Zane Grey
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Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no.
Norman Lamm