Stifle Quotes
113 Stifle quotes by 99 unique authors
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Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever…
— E. M. Forster
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Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their…
— Linda Howard
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To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
— Henry Miller
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I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of…
— Malcolm Forbes
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Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
— Myron Scholes
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
— John Berger
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One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.
— Anita Elberse
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Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was…
— Seth Shostak
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I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode due process under…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it…
— John Stuart Mill
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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
— William Moulton Marston
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
— Bainbridge Colby
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Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues…
— Christine Pelosi
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
— Flannery O'Connor
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It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand…
— Ronald Reagan
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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…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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What ought to have been done, and what shall be done, often stifle doing between them. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at…
— Unknown Author
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