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• In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

  Chaka Khan

  Felt

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Power

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

  John Locke

  Philosophical, Punishment, Evil

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 54 (1693)

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• However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

  George Washington

  Party, Men, People

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

  Jensen Ackles

  Girl, Firsts, Nervous

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• It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Horse, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Oct 13, 2011

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• I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Pet, Spurs, Riding

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.828, 谷月社

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• The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Horse, Soul, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda (2012). “Raja Yoga (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Joy, Brain

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• It's nice to be able to let go of the reins sometimes and know that somebody you really trust is gonna pick them up as soon as you do.

  Georgia Nott

  Letting Go, Nice, Able

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

  George Santayana

  Despair, Vitality, Reason

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.152, Indiana University Press

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• You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Horse, Children, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

  Steig Larsson

  Self, Giving, Natural

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• I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Giving, Style

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• If businesses are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public and regain the trust that they have lost, they should worry a lot more about what they stand for and entrust those with expertise in communication a much freer rein to express this in ways that people might recognise as being sincere and sympathetic, rather than stilted and formulaic.

  Nick Baker

  Business, Communication, Eye

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• War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Crush, Peace, War

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• . . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have to let them stumble, fall into walls and be mute, let them drift and be lost. If you hold the reins too tight, they won't spring to life.

  Tina Howe

  Wall, Spring, Fall

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• ...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Ideas, Imagination

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• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

  Tahir Shah

  Imagination, Waiting, Television

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.71, Random House

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• He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."

  Walter Scott

  Love, Rivers, Said

  Walter Scott (1838). “The Lady of the Lake”, p.255

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• We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Heart, Animal

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• As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

  James Bovard

  Government, People, Leashes

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.270, Macmillan

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• It's no use just by shouting out that it is bad or it's good. If someone feels bad about something, they should go and support the reins themselves.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Support, Use, Should

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• The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Creative, Way

  "Lorne Michaels: the inscrutable kingmaker of comedy" by Jon Swaine, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2014.

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• Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Resurrection

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