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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.


Francis Bacon


#constructions #hard #inferences #judges #laws

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.


Simone de Beauvoir


#capable #either #fear #feeling #heterosexuality

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.


Barbara Deming


#could #cut #harm #little #might

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.


Katherine Dunn


#also #capacity #contain #crucial #damage

Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.


Hassanal Bolkiah


#areas #asean #association #because #been

It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.


Nigel Farage


#day #eu #finances #find #giving

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.


R. Buckminster Fuller


#bring #circle #clients #dome #ease

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.


James L. Buckley


#amendment #appearance #avoid #campaign #consequence

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.


Paul Farmer


#activists #causes #constraints #could #did

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.


Edmund Burke


#folly #greatest #liberty #madness #possible






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