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• Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Retirement, Space, Soul

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• she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but his ardour was all the more evident for the reins with which he restrained it, the mask of steel behind which he imprisoned it, his detached demeanour and deliberate gestures that, far from parading a lack of interest, displayed the strength of his self-discipline, that he could so tightly curb the intensity of his passion.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Passion, Self, Discipline

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2007). “The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles”, p.521, Tor Books

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• I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

  Melinda McGraw

  Enthusiasm, Curb Your Enthusiasm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.

  Sarah Dessen

  Long, Trying, Different

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• If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

  Chanakya

  Country, Political, Trying

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• You don't need a search warrant to go through someone's trash. Seriously. Once it hits the curb it is totally fair game - you an look it up.

  Ally Carter

  Games, Needs, Looks

  "Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy". Book by Ally Carter, October 2, 2007.

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• Sorry about Bender," Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. "Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could say we were all set to bring Bender in, and he died. Bang. Dead as a doorknob." "Better yet, why don't we just go back and kill him," I said. I opened the door to leave, caught my toe in the floor mat, and fell out of the car, face first. I rolled onto my back and stared up at the stars. "I'm fine," I said to Lula. "Maybe I'll sleep here tonight.

  Janet Evanovich

  Stars, Sorry, Sleep

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'

  Joel Miller

  Law, Libertarian

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• On turf and curb and bower-roof
  The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
  It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
  And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
  And snivering stem its magic weaves
  A mantle fair as lily-leaves.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Garden, Ivory, Snow

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• What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Practice, Concern For Others

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

  John Dryden

  Running, Church, Doctrine

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.300, Pearson Education

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• ...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  Country, Powerful, True Friend

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• If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Kids, Stronger, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Tongue, Disorder

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.154, University of Georgia Press

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• One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Maturity, Men

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• Efficiency may curtail [energy] demand in the short term, for the specific task at hand. But its long-term impact is just the opposite...efficiency fails to curb demand because it lets more people do more, and do it faster-and more/more/faster invariably swamps all the efficiency gains.

  Peter W. Huber

  Impact, Hands, Opposites

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• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Skills

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

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• Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Arrogance, Mind

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.651, Delphi Classics

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• I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veggies. I do have a really big sweet tooth, so I try to curb my cravings with fruit instead.

  Katherine Webb

  Sweet, Trying, Salmon

  "Katherine Webb on Fitness, Fame, and What's Next". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.

  Gideon Gono

  Moving, Land, Agriculture

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• For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

  Max Muller

  Horse, Self, Lord

  Max Muller (2015). “Dhammapada”, p.84, Max Muller

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• Some non-communist parties and CPPCC members have, at CPPCC meetings or in their proposals, called for the enactment of a law against secession at the earliest date, to resolutely fight and curb 'Taiwan independence' activities in any forms.

  Jia Qinglin

  Party, Fighting, Law

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• I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Machines, Enthusiasm, Twins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

  Adi Shankara

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

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• You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

  John Keats

  Artist, Rift, Might

  Letter to Shelley, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 323; echoing Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 7, st. 28, l. 5: 'And with rich metal loaded every rift'

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