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"in the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things." »The Dhammapada
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"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare" »Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
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"in all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly." »Goethe
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"of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most." »Thucyclides
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"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"in Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." »Martin Niemller
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"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The success combination in business is Do what you do better...and Do more of what you do..." »David Joseph Schwartz
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"The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs." »Author Unknown
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"There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate." »John Sloan Dickey
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"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." »Arnold Palmer
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"My view is that one should not break up a winning combination." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm." »The Dhammapada
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"An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?" »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
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"Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single." »Jimmy Townsend
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"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." »Napolean Hill
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"I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination." »Frank L. Boyden
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both." »Fawn M. Brodie
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"Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty." »Butler
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"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public." »George Bernard Shaw
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"in all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade." »Benjamin Franklin
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"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"i will never trade gold for silver again." »esther clerici
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"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." »Maya Angelou
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"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." »Anais Nin
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"in this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." »Edmund Burke
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