#constraint

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. ↗

— Sophocles

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I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#felt #i #never #social

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. ↗

— David Byrne

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free. ↗

— Martin Yan

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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#expand #influence #international #leadership #means

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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