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  • You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day. -- J. B. Smoove
  • I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. -- Denzel Washington
  • Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. -- Alfred Adler
  • Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. -- Eileen Caddy
  • Austerity policy without currency devaluation can only hamper economic growth. -- Lou Jiwei
  • The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Every day, new laws are created that further hamper the ways children can engage with the world. -- Gever Tulley
  • The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me. -- Michele Bachmann
  • Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? -- Katharine Whitehorn
  • If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them. -- Dan Farmer
  • Have you noticed that if you leave the laundry in the hamper long enough, it's ready to wear again? -- Elayne Boosler
  • The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues, -- Thurgood Marshall
  • I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me. -- Halle Berry
  • Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis. -- Michael C. Burgess
  • the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ... -- Mary Augusta Ward
  • In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. Something like that. -- Rick Riordan
  • Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living. -- Hans F. Sennholz
  • It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper. -- Teresa Medeiros
  • Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis. -- Brene Brown
  • For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney-client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case. -- Laura Wasser
  • Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
  • Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Our charities should pinch and hamper us. If we live at the same level of affluence as other people who have our level of income, we are probably giving away too little. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers. -- Jack Handey
  • Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. -- George Orwell
  • Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so! -- Chris Hardwick
  • The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life -- Albert Schweitzer
  • The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • Don't let the lies of yesterday hamper the promises of tomorrow -- Ricky Yousuf
  • That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper. -- Barack Obama
  • Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth. -- George Eliot
  • A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind. -- Paul Valery
  • No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion. -- Laura Esquivel
  • I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
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