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• As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

  Jean Piaget

  Practice, Games, Adults

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Reflection, May, Firsts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course [Barack] Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.

  Bill Gates

  Agriculture, Malaria, Initiative

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Choices, Path

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• Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

  Allan Bloom

  Mind, Liberty, Alternatives

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• The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.

  Jose Padilha

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

  "Jose Padilha Talks Robocop Remake". Interview with Scott Collura, Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. November 7, 2011.

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• The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Greatness, Obstacles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.54, Routledge

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• What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Self, Law, Acting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Has WikiLeaks been forced to do one thing rather than another in response to resource constraints? Yes. Constantly.

  Julian Assange

  Wikileaks, Resources, Response

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Writing, Ambition, Get Better

  "Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• One of the constraints on the U.S. business is the pilot shortage. There's not an abundance of pilots. There may be an abundance of cheap fuel and airplanes. There probably isn't an abundance of gates at popular airports, either.

  David Neeleman

  Airplane, Airports, Fuel

  Source: skift.com

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• Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense of community.

  Dale Jamieson

  Impact, Community, Climate

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Skills, Growth

  SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.

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• I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.

  Pierre Trudeau

  People, Catholic, Used

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Years, People, Political

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Practice, Names

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

  Duncan Green

  Russia, Decision, Acting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Community, Support, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Technology, Expression

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, Way, Clean

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Moving, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork that I'm interested in.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Spy, Stories, Tick

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, War, Doors

  "How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste System in America". Interview With Mark Karlin, img.alternet.org. August 2, 2012.

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• There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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