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«I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.»
Author: Elizabeth I
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«In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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«True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
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Liberty
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«Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
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«Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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«It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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«War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.»
«As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.»
«The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.»
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