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• It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  Karl Jaspers

  Greatness, People, Independence

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• Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Fear, Selfish, Men

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• In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

  Hyman Minsky

  World, Ratios, Portfolios

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• Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.

  Kofi Annan

  Opposites, Choices, Growth

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• Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

  Crush, Fun, Heart

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (2010). “Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades”, p.21, Penguin

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• Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Selfish, Reflection, Men

  Hippolyte Taine (1904). “History of English literature”

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• God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Love You, Creating

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.

  Noam Chomsky

  Organization, Numbers, World

  Source: chomsky.info

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• As matters now stand, the veto seems inappropriate, given the absence of any deep ideological split between major states, and definitely constrains the war-prevention mission of the UN. Similarly, the present permanent five are out of touch with geopolitical realities, and constitute a remnant of a West-centric world order, casting a shadow of illegitimacy across the activities of the most important organ of global policymaking in the UN System.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Reality, Order

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Obligation

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• It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Sorrow, Limits, Sides

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• I think there's pressure on every mayor who's trying to do the right thing by their people, and that's the pressure of a capitalist society, which does not want to give up a dime. They basically want to constrain the people in every way they can.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Broken, Effort

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.3528, 谷月社

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• Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

  Bruce Lee

  Guy, Too Much, Students

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• You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

  Geoffrey West

  Order, Law, Cities

  "The Sameness of Organisms, Cities, and Corporations". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. July 26, 2011.

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• In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Beer, Loss

  Martin Luther (1967). “Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523”

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• I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love
  inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Silence, Speak

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.9, Fig

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• Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

  Chuck Grassley

  Exercise, Keys, Judging

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Reflection, Two, Lightning

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• There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Medical, Dogma, Ethical

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.63, Penguin

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• Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Judging, Skating, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Real, Land, Shadow

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul.

  Louis Pasteur

  Believe, Fighting, Discovery

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