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«One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.»
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«All the heat there was seemed to concentrate in the Hons' cupboard, which was always stifling. Here we would sit, huddled up on the slatted shelves, and talk for hours about life and death.»
«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)
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«I don't have to worry about what people are thinking and what's going on in the industry. I don't want that stuff to influence what I'm doing. Because I think it stifles you creatively. I don't want to have to care too much about that. All I care about is what the fans think. It's really all I care about, honestly.»
«It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality»
«The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our yawns»
«Unless God send his hail / Or blinding fire balls, sleet or stifling snow, / In some time, his good time, I shall arrive.»
«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.»
«Speech is too often not . . . the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought.»
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