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• Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Support, Special, Vote

  Nancy Pelosi's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

  Andrew Shue

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Understanding, Not Sure, Bodyguard

  Michael J Sullivan (2012). “Percepliquis”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Suppressing his relief, Valek asked, “Can you please tell this Lieutenant who he has arrested?” “Can do,” Janco said with a smile. “Lieutenant Darren, let me be the first to congratulate you on capturing the elusive and legendary Kelav. He’s been wanted in Ixia for years on multiple counts of espionage.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Years, Relief, Firsts

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• You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Crush, Thinking, Ideas

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Long, Razors

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

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• As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Technology, Risk

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• We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

  Maria Montessori

  Religious, Sweet, Children

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• A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, People, Ambitious

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• Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Economy, Harm

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Mad, Wicked, Church

  "Unreasonable behaviour" by David Beresford, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Mean, Passion, Creativity

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• For me, writing music is a way of processing the world. It's not a concrete thing, as in, "This piece is about giraffes." It's much more of an emotional sort of thing. I want people to find something out about themselves through my music, something that was inaccessible before, something that they were suppressing, something that they couldn't really confront.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Writing, Emotional, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

  Jessica Walsh

  Responsibility, Thinking, Waste

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• Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.

  Enya

  Mirrors, Music Is, Exposing

  "Everyone Thinks I'm So Shockable". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 24, 2005.

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• We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

  Dwight Schultz

  Government, Information, Hoaxes

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• Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.

  Sara Paretsky

  Home, People, Liberty

  Sara Paretsky (2003). “Blacklist”

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• Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Acceptance, Light, Goal

  "Tool: Things Are Going to Work Out". Interview with Robert Makin, www.shroomery.org. November 10, 2002.

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Would Be

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• The Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

  Howard Dean

  Vote, Republican

  Howard Dean's speech at the "Take Back America" Conference in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2005.

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• The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

  Nelson Mandela

  Crush, Country, Powerful

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• If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But when we're not afraid to confront the hard emotions - when we don't turn away from the pain and the suffering of the world - it builds the confidence that we can do whatever we need to do.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Strong, Pain, Sadness

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we should have known it then. It's about exactly what's happening, how we can disregard public opinion as long as the dictators we support are capable of suppressing their populations. So to hell with public opinion. That's all right there in the 1950's. That's not security. That's not security of the government. That's, if anything, security from its own population. And there's a lot of that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Egypt, Should Have, Government

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Grief, Sadness, Feelings

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics and hampered the development of economics - and the country would fall back further and further in the economic competition with the West.

  Stefan Heym

  Country, Fall, Competition

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