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stifled
«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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«He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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all at once, inarticulate, Once in a Lifetime, packed, regrets, stifled
«We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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endeavoring, stifle, stifled, stifles, stifling
«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)
| About:
War
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conscience, stifle, stifled, stifles, stifling, The Voice, ugly, unjust, voice, voice of conscience, wage, waged, waging
«If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Grief,
Society
| Keywords:
croak, croaking, gloomy, stifled
«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 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.»
«Many Americans today, just as they did 200 years ago, feel burdened, stifled, and sometimes even oppressed by government that has grown too large, too bureaucratic, too wasteful, too unresponsive, too uncaring about people and their problems. I believe we can embark on a new age of reform in this country and an era of national renewal, an era that will reorder the relationship between citizen and government, that will make government again responsive to people, that will revitalize the values of family, work, and neighborhood and that will restore our private and independent social institutions.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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