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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. Honore de Balzac | top
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus | top
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction. Bainbridge Colby | top
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | top
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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. Claude Debussy | top
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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. Benjamin Disraeli | top
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We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore. Todd English | top
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Brian Eno | top
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They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. Janet Frame | top
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Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic. Judd Gregg | top
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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online. Dennis Hastert | top
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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 | top
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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 would be an evil still. John Stuart Mill | top
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. Ralph Nader | top
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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. Kate O'Brien | top
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor | top
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I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. Jean O'Leary | top
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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. Ross Perot | top
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. John Charles Polanyi | top
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Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage. John Shadegg | top
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Madame de Stael | top
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Leo Tolstoy | top
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On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off. Cynthia Weil | top
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. Edith Wharton | top
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Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character. Michael Zaslow | top
