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There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.


Carol Vorderman


#because #brother #brother and sister #family #father

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.


Johnny Weissmuller


#incessant #marriage #stand #stand up #strain

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.


Walt Whitman


#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people.


Chuck Zito


#few #few people #hit #i #people

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.


Andre Gide


#combat #direct #easier #labors #lead

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.


Germaine Greer


#divorce #family #indissoluble #laws #made

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


#before #benefit #bring #constrain #eat

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.


Chuck Hagel


#expand #influence #international #leadership #means

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.


Horace


#cannot #irritation #prompted #restrain #temper

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.


Muhammad Iqbal


#evolution #only #preliminary #self-restraint #sexual






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