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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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"Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new nickname for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname 'Fly Head'. Normally, you would think that 'Fly Head' would mean a person who had beautiful swept-back features, as if flying though the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean 'having a head like a fly' I'm afraid some people might actually think that." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits." »G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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"I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to." »Yakov Smirnoff
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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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"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 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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"Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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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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"While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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"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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"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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"Nicky I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f***in' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what I'll split your f***in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f***in' stupid. I don't give a f*** about jail. That's my business. That's what I do." »Casino
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"For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control." »Smiles
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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them." »Elbert Hubbard
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"What a splendid head, yet no brain." »Aesop
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"I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away." »Oscar Levant
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"The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head." »Terry Pratchett, A Discworld Novel
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"He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating." »Ayn Rand
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"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." »Jonathan Swift
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"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing." »Georges Jacques Danton, to his executioner
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