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Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. -- Robert Evans
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. -- George Washington
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. -- Galileo Galilei
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient. -- Geoffrey West
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. -- George Whitefield
The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it. -- Ted Malloch
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software. -- Bruce Tognazzini
Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective. -- Dalai Lama
To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding -- George Steiner
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good. -- John Stuart Mill
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. -- Henry David Thoreau
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill. -- Ai Weiwei
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides. -- Sophie Swetchine
Nixon tried to wrap the Soviet Union into a web of agreements that would constrain its behavior. What happened is that many people lost faith in that approach, not the least because of how the Soviets handled it. -- David Hoffman
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts. -- Friedrich Schiller
Were I to personify Justice, instead of presenting her blind, I would denominate her the goddess of fire. . . Of unbending integrity Justice should feel, hear and see; but truth alone should be the polar star by which she should shape her movements, and equity only should constrain her determinations. -- Judith Sargent Murray
Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth. -- Kofi Annan
You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom. -- Robert Greene
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world. -- Paulo Freire
And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you. -- Robert Grosseteste
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain. -- Gary Hamel
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system. -- Henry Paulson
While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining activists' access to free online software and services used widely across the Middle East, including browsers, online chat applications, and online storage services. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him. -- Joseph Joubert
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving. -- Martha Beck
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it. -- Aesop
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound. -- Immanuel Kant
Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish. -- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right... -- Barack Obama
Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism. -- Henry Steele Commager
Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow it to the end. -- Paulo Coelho
Needless to say, food is used to constrain as well as to unify the members of many faiths. Most religions meddle in the day-to-day culinary habits of their adherents. -- Michael Krondl
Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy. -- Hyman Minsky

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