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«We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.»
Author: Anna Lindh
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abstain, arsenals, china, discontinue, discontinued, India, missile, Missile Defense, nuclear missiles, Pakistan, President Bush, The National, urge
«The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.»
Author: William Henry Harrison
(President)
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, executive, functions, guardians, interfering, lawmaking, of their own, The Guardian, thwart, thwarting, thwarts
«Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: / But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.»
«We should abstain from violence, debauchery, evil deeds, sensual-attachment, hatred, anger and ego. »
«We should abstain from miserliness,cruelty,gambling and misconduct while doing business. »
«When you doubt, abstain.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Doubt
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abstain, abstaining, abstains
«What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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abstain, baits, continence, distinguish, seeming
«The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those who went before you: then look to your action, and abstain from the world of wickedness»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
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World
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, green, look to, verily, wickedness
«To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, forsake, forsaken, forsakes, forsaking
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