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Whether children have first amendment rights is a vexed legal question, but what is not in question is that they someday will. Constraining them from expressing their views is no preparation for exercising those rights. -- Crispin Sartwell
Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining -- Bjarne Stroustrup
It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor. -- Christine Gregoire
Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? -- Alan Moore
The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful. -- Thorstein Veblen
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right. -- Plato
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world. -- Alain de Botton
I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional. -- Charlotte Casiraghi
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates. -- Ben Bernanke

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