#strain

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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Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#antagonize #cannot #global #great #learn

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

#happen #love #love scene #might #must

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #caresses #die #expressions #leaves

I burned down our house, and that put a strain on our family. ↗

— Reese Hoffa

#down #family #house #i #our

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#active #adjustment #anywhere #climate #delicate

Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#means #patience #restraining

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #fbi #free #haven #impose

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#beyond #go #great #poetry #somebody

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

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