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«Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me»
Author: Arthur Rubinstein
(Composer, Pianist)
| Keywords:
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«Written reports stifle creativity.»
Author: Ross Perot
| About:
Creativity,
Writing
| Keywords:
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«We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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«War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
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«While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees. . . . The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns»
«The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.»
«It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
do away with, Foster, productivity, ride away, Ride On, smother, smothered, smothering, stand by, stifle
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