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• Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.

  James Gleick

  Children, Play, Outlook On Life

  James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

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• How powerful social mores are!  Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

  Karl Kraus

  Powerful, Lying, Volcanoes

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.24, University of Illinois Press

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• We hear the same refrain all the time from people: I have no life. I get up in the morning, daycare, eldercare, a 40 minute commute to work. I have to work late. I get home at night, there's laundry, bills to pay, jam something into the microwave oven. I'm exhausted, I go to sleep, I wake up and the routine begins all over again. This is what life has become in America.

  Gerald Celente

  Morning, Sleep, Home

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• I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

  Christopher Rice

  Dangerous Situations, Names, People

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• You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them

  Brigham Young

  Men, Church, Firsts

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• The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.

  Sharon Gannon

  Order, Needs, Purpose

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
  A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students;
  Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
  Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism;
  And to some he teaches the profound,
  The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment,
  Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Compassion, Essence, Practice

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• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Small Acts

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• An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

  Solon

  Men, Desire, Riding

  "The Histories Bk. 1". Book by Herodotus, trans. Robin Waterfield, ch. 32, pp. 15-16.,

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• The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Soldier, West, World

  1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman,19 Apr.

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• If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Government, Deception

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.141, Harriman House Limited

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• The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

  Hans Arp

  Dream, Art, Writing

  "Arp on Arp: poems, essays, memories". Book by Hans Arp, p. 327, 1958.

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• That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Favour, Gang, Boast

  "Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.

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• I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

  George Washington

  Marriage, Believe, Mean

  George Washington (1997). “Writings”

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• I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Suicide, Quality, Reason Why

  Letter to August Derleth (25 December 1930), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 584), 1996.

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• The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty.

  Marcel Proust

  Communication, Animal, Inspire

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.257, Modern Library

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• The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Doe, Consideration

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Talking, Tunes, Opera

  Note in the score to "The Poisoned Kiss" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1936.

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• If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Worst Enemy, Your Side

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 1-7. Judgement), 1980.

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• There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.

  Douglas Portway

  Hands, Mind, Landscape

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• As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

  Joel Bakan

  Corporations, Moral, Reason

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• We're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.

  Ilana Mercer

  Individual Differences, Groups, Facts

  "Update V: The Kindness Of (Caucasian) Strangers (On Brotherly Love)". barelyablog.com. January 31, 2010.

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• Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.

  Asher Peres

  Book, Intellectual, Lasts

  "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 26-27), 1995.

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• My earnest prayer is that you will have the courage required to refrain from judging others, the courage to be chaste and virtuous, and the courage to stand firm for truth and righteousness. As you do so, you will be ‘an example of the believers’ (1 Timothy 4:12), and your life will be filled with love and peace and joy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Judging, Joy

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• Eva [Braun] also cried when [Adolf Hitler] would leave her for long periods. She was inconsolable without him, that was a never-changing refrain.

  Gretl Braun

  Long, Periods, Cried

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