#strain

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ↗

— Confucius

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Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. ↗

— Paul Daniels

#creation #even #great #great strain #into

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#considerable #continue #matter #obviously #path

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ↗

— Robert Evans

#constrain #creativity #depress #designed #exclusively

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction. ↗

— Jude Law

#around #because #entering #feel #finally

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. ↗

— John Locke

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