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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill
Evil
Would
Would-Be
Never
Sure
Opinion
Stifle
Stifling
Still
Were
False
Even
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
Richard Dawkins
Good
You
Science
Criticism
Thrive
Medicine
Possible
Rather
Instead
Stifling
Encouraging
Than
Intend
Even
Actively
Why
Harm
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Kate Chopin
Breath
Ruthless
Could
Feel
Crushing
Feet
Stifling
Hear
Hands
Rhythm
Procession
Should
March
My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.
Killer Mike
Music
Myself
Failure
People
Other
Music Industry
Way
Run
Industry
Ready
Stifling
Label
Trying
Dying
Biggest
Help
Helped
Start
Needed
Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
Tariq Ali
Best
Change
Women
World
Men
Young
Change The World
Atmosphere
Joined
Stifling
Women And Men
Did
Wanted
Against
Young Women
Who
Reasons
Many
Groups
Fought
Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.
Matt Gaetz
World
Face
Dairy
Citrus
Countries
Around
Stifling
Beef
Chicken
Products
Barriers
Many
Agricultural
When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
Dane Cook
You
Man
Comedy
Laughter
Face
Looking
Crew
Everyone
Out
Hopefully
Hoping
Someone
Guys
Like
Making
Stifling
Movie
Movie Set
Working
Set
Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.
Laura van den Berg
Once
Possible
Feel
Like
Most
Unusual
Stifling
Anything
Anything Is Possible
Place
Florida
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
Vince Cable
Man
Business
Scale
Enterprise
Wears
Steady
Small
Small Scale
Trousers
Ankles
Like
Particularly
Operate
Tied
Stifling
Chest
His
Middle
Want
Banks
Either
Lending
Breathing
Productive
Who
Exposing
Now
Round
Assets
Growth
British
A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.
Kumail Nanjiani
Video Games
Myself
Good
Me
People
World
Older
Honestly
Broadened
Say
Those
Characters
Horizons
People Say
Good Thing
Outside
Had
Make
Make Up
Stifling
Go
Lot
Up
Being
Golden
Stories
Video
Really
Games
Older People
Thing
Axe
Playing
Imagined
What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness?
Sayed Kashua
Hope
People
Will
National
Sense
Kind
Hopelessness
Morality
Occupation
Stifling
Years
Left
So Many Years
Form
After
Produce
Many
Palestinians
Consciousness
I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.
David Draiman
Love
Music
Me
Writing
Way
Hooks
Would
Would-Be
Never
Concern
Stifling
Been
Very
Getting
While
Radio
For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.
Ransom Riggs
Imagination
Dream
Dreary
Castles
Liked
Felt
Gothic
Stifling
Suburban
Little
Who
Florida
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
Justin Townes Earle
Other
Like
Stifling
Nashville
Any
After
While
Hometown
Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.
John Raese
Time
You
Business
Country
Pay
Every
Every Time
Inordinate
New
Stifling
American
Tax
Really
Regulation
Amount