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And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.


Robert Grosseteste


#before #benefit #bring #constrain #eat

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.


Lafcadio Hearn


#advantage #being #better #circumstances #civilized

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

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


#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.


Breyten Breytenbach


#administration #agencies #america #any #because

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

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.


Lawrence Eagleburger


#economic #emphasis #necessarily #officer #political

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


Stanley Smith Stevens


#measure #placed #statistics #type #used






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