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«The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.»
Author: William Pollard
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Ideas
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«I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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Imagination
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«The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
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Art
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«I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
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Life
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«I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.»
«Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.»
Author: Ovid
(Author, Poet)
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Grief
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«There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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«As plants are suffocated and drowned with too much moisture, and lamps with too much oil, so is the active part of the understanding with too much study»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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«Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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