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Restraint is what the rest of the world showed when they dismissed a crazy Austrian paperhanger and his nutty book, “Mein Kampf.”
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Restraint is what you show in disputes with rational people who are willing to compromise, who will give up something in return for something.
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Restraint is the foundation of having and using power responsibly but it is nothing but a child’s wail when confronted by those who use power irresponsibly and for evil.
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It was in vain that he endeavour'd to make her sensible of her Mistake; and that this Restraint was the greatest Enemy imaginable to the Happiness of them both: She was not to be perswaded, and he was oblig'd to desist his Solicitations, though determin'd in his Mind to compass what he so ardently desir'd, before he left the House.
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze, Being a Secret History of an Amour Between Two Persons of Condition 1725
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There is even one with a harness that designer Ted Nemeth calls the Restraint chair.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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There is even one with a harness that designer Ted Nemeth calls the Restraint chair.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Foreign Objects: Restraint aka If Movies Were Sandwiches This Would Be a Sexy Vegemite Club Best Trailer for a Documentary Ever: Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of OZploitation!
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Foreign Objects: Restraint aka If Movies Were Sandwiches This Would Be a Sexy Vegemite Club
Film School Rejects 2008
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'Restraint' of Federal spending may be real restraint or it may simply be pushing spending onto a different accounting ledger.
Did the Bush Tax Cut Fail?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In every institution where the discredited principles of "Restraint" are used or tolerated, the very atmosphere is brutalizing.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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