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• The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

  Margaret Halsey

  Upper Class, Insulting, Asking

  With Malice Toward Some pt. 3 (1938)

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• All religious vows, codes, and commitments are null & void herein. Please refrain from contaminating the ideosphere with harmful memes through prayer, reverence, holy books, proselytizing, prophesying, faith, speaking in tongues or spirituality. Fight the menace of second-hand faith! Humanity sincerely thanks you!

  Greg Erwin

  Thank You, Religious, Prayer

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• To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.

  Alan Watts

  Running, Pain, Fighting

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Opportunity, Law, Land

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

  William Morris

  Art, Hands, Fire

  William Morris (2002). “The Earthly Paradise”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

  Gordon Smith

  Communication, Air, Favors

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• I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

  Bill Belichick

  People, Ongoing, Process

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

  William Saroyan

  Book, World, Opinion

  William Saroyan, James H. Tashjian (1983). “My name is Saroyan”, Coward Mc Cann

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• The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Meditation, Easier

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• It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless. Outside the sphere of literature only one aspect of individuals is revealed. But if you understand their different dimensions you cannot easily murder them.

  Azar Nafisi

  Shoes, Different, Literature

  "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books". Book by Azar Nafisi, www.sfgate.com. 2003.

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• For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Echoes, Glasses, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Dec 05, 2011

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• You are well aware of your effect on women, and I'm sure it gratifies you no end to watch them sigh and salivate over your magnificent physique. I do not wish to spoil your fun, Dain, but I do ask you to consider my pride and refrain from embarrassing me in public." Women...sighing and salivating...over his magnificent physique. Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

  Loretta Chase

  Fun, Pride, Brain

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• One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

  Coco Chanel

  Humanity, Shaving, Should

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.

  John Shelby Spong

  Honesty, Thinking, Giving

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

  Judith Butler

  Important, Cease

  Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.8, Psychology Press

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• He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

  Steven Erikson

  Song, Blessed, Men

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• Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

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• Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Agency, Government

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

  Hsuan Hua

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Killing

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• Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Long, Morality

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.

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• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Song, Party, Eight

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• To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long, to every one of you who worry that you are stranded somewhere on the wintry plains of life and have wrecked your handcart in the process, we call out "Jehovah's unrelenting refrain, "My hand is stretched out still" (Isaiah 5:25: 9:17,21). "...His mercy endureth forever, and His hand is stretched out still. His is the pure love of Christ, the charity that never faileth, that compassion which endures even when all other strength disappears".

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Compassion, Thinking, Hands

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• This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

  Milan Kundera

  Fashion, Reading, May

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  The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.

  Bassui Tokusho

  Buddhist, Drinking, Drunk

  "Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui".

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