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Quotes About Constrained

later—unlike gardeners, who understand rather well that pruning trees strengthens them. Likewise peace—some kind of forced, constrained, non-natural peace—may be costly in lives: just
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When constrained systems, those hungry for natural disorder, collapse, as they are eventually bound to, since they are fragile, failure is never seen as the result of fragility. Rather, such failure is interpreted as the product of poor forecasting.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Adherents of both the constrained and the unconstrained visions each see fascism as the logical extension of the adversary's vision.
~ Thomas Sowell
The amplification of our lives by technology grants us a power over the natural world which we can no longer afford to use. In everything we do we must now be mindful of the lives of others, cautious, constrained, meticulous. We may no longer live as if there were no tomorrow.
~ George Monbiot
And still I am quite cramped with it all!
~ Victor Hugo
But I felt constrained using the voice of an adolescent girl who didn't know enough because I didn't know enough. I was too young then. It was a crisis that swirled around me, rather than cut through me, and yet the riots have weighed on my conscience as a crucible of race relations that this nation failed.
~ Cathy Park Hong
It is, however, challenging to note that we are now living in this current aftermath that is defined by micropowers and small communities but are still dependent on our memories of size and strength and still constrained by the polity, policies, and practices once effective in large institutions.
~ Gil Rendle
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.
~ Mark Waid
Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.
~ James Gleick
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
He moves in the dry chaff among the dust and slats of sunlight with a constrained truculence. Saxon and Celtic bloods. A child of God much like yourself perhaps.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
~ William Dunham
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
~ Julian Assange
She was like a person with too many clothes on, you know. She couldn't feel the warmth of the sun
~ D.E. Stevenson
All revolutions have been carried through by the spontaneous action of the people; if occasionally governments have responded to the initiative of the people it was only because they were forced or constrained to do so. Almost always they blocked, repressed, struck.
~ Unknown
To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Location undoubtedly helps drive value, but more than that, a supply-constrained area where people want to be helps lock in better returns during the ownership and long-term value.
~ Donald J. Trump
Atirada a um leito, tonelável, imobilizada, enchendo de mofo o fofo estofo.
~ Mia Couto
Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories of constrained and unconstrained (or tragic and utopian) visions of human nature, I think there is just one vision with a sliding scale. Let's call this the Realistic Vision. If you believe that human nature is partly constrained in all respects—morally, physically, and intellectually—then you hold a Realistic Vision of human nature.
~ Michael Shermer
In fact, the challenge is to find an industry where this has not happened and where the power of the top players is not more constrained and, indeed, decaying.
~ Moisés Naím
Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.
~ Paul Farmer