#straining

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

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We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. ↗

— Charles Vest

#been #consumer #cost #growth #half

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#against #character #characters #did #different

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#means #patience #restraining

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

— Stephen Spender

#beyond #go #great #poetry #somebody

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

— Eddie Campbell

#couple #discussion #here #horror #things

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#costs #country #criminals #crisis #door

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#common #doing #duties #effective #great

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#budget #encouraging #government #growth #private