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«I guess it wouldn't discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.»
«I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice.»
«Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| About:
Difficulty
| Keywords:
discourage, rouse, rouses, rousing
«Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Blessings,
Death and dying,
Mankind,
Progress
| Keywords:
discourage, hamper, hampered, hampering, hampers
«If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.»
«Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Taxation
| Keywords:
April, discourage, elections, election day, income, income taxes, taxes, the 16th, The Day After
«Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Relationships
| Keywords:
compromise, discourage, discourages, discouraging, Good Neighbors, lawyer, litigation, neighbors, peacemaker, peacemakers, persuade, superior, The Good Neighbor
«Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
discourage, esteemed, hoarding, lays, part with, penny, preference
«Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were [the law-abiding] deprived of the use of them.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abiding, awe, deprived, deprived of, discourage, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, horrid, invader, Invaders, law-abiding, mischief, plunderer, plunderers, preserve
«For it is important that awake people be awake,or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;the signals we give -- yes or no, or maybe --should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.»
Author: William Stafford
| Keywords:
discourage
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