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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Man
Communication
Giving
Blessed
Nothing
Say
Evidence
Having
Fact
Abstain
Wordy
Who
I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
Nikola Tesla
Myself
Abstain
Also
Practically
Stimulants
Meat
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
Words
Philosophy
Lies
Abstain
Sustain
Two
As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
Zachary Taylor
Time
History
Liberty
Political
Political Liberty
Own
Sympathize
Our
We Cannot
Civil
Voice
Alliance
Abstain
Blessings
Foreign
Efforts
American
Same
Same Time
Nations
Cannot
Warned
Washington
Extend
Beloved
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose Bierce
Others
Everything
Total
Abstain
Affairs
Inactivity
Who
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
Boris Pasternak
Me
Honor
Will
Community
Meet
Has-Been
Given
Abstain
Voluntary
Been
Undeserved
Prize
Refusal
Which
Meaning
Should
View
Ill
Awarded
Belong
I think it actually is easier for players to abstain from watching than it is for people who haven't experienced it. I know a wide variety of former players that don't really follow football any more. They've kind of had that cathartic experience. They know what it is.
Chris Borland
Experience
People
Think
Easier
Kind
Follow
More
Variety
Had
Football
Abstain
Know
Cathartic
Than
Any
Experienced
Former
Really
Who
Actually
Wide
Wide Variety
Players
Watching
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
Elaine Stritch
Whatever
Bit
Easier
Kind
Find
Abstain
Than
Want
Anything
Little
Little Bit
Dame
If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.
Elliot Richardson
Power
Big
Situation
Voluntarily
Abstain
Advantage
Feels
Loses
Effect
Being
Cannot
Full
Large
Strategic
Using
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
James Fenimore Cooper
Government
Good
Political
Own
Consequences
Aid
Add
Increasing
Aims
Unnecessary
Unavoidable
Abstain
Force
Inequalities
Inequality
Accumulate
Artificial
Social
Means
Good Government
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
John Nelson Darby
Simplicity
Word
Church
Add
Ought
Bent
Those
Pretext
Restoring
Abstain
Instructed
Well
Doing
Anything
Who
Whole
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine
Abstain
Sin
Longer
Forsake
Forsaken
I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
Sharron Angle
Good
You
Responsible
Kinds
Abstain
Know
Contraception
Pro
Choice
Choices
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