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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Men, Particular

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.60, Penguin

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A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.

Mason Cooley

Effort, Appearance, Absurdity

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Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Mason Cooley

Modern, Paint, Depiction

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In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.

Lydia M. Child

Men, Long, Wife

"An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Women, Thinking, People

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But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

Alan Watts

Letting Go, Effort, Ego

Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

Gottfried Leibniz

Long, Soul, Body

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.168, Hackett Publishing

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Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

Marion Milner

Thinking, People, Worry

Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.154, Taylor & Francis

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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Francois Fenelon

Kings, Religion, Matter

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Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

Noam Chomsky

Military, Government, Ignorant Masses

"Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Lord Acton

Execution, Socialism, Accepting

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The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

Thomas Sowell

Real, Gun, Mass Shootings

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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Leo Tolstoy

Arrogant Person, Perfect, Arrogance

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy (p. 110), 1909.

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Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.

William S. Burroughs

Girl, Fighting, Boys

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So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Successful, Intelligent

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Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful.

Al Gore

Powerful, Civilization, Water

Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.111, Routledge

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The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perception, Structure, Senses

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.484

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Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rights, House, President

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No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Organization, Assessment, Views

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... far be it from a Frenchman to interfere with love.

E. A. Bucchianeri

True Love, Frenchmen

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I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

Elbert Hubbard

Uplifting, People, Giving

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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been
practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.

Elbert Hubbard

People, Three, Done

Elbert Hubbard (1901). “Little Journeys to the Homes Of...: Great musicians”

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Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Dream, Fate, Ukraine

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The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Fashion, Insecure, Men

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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