A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
It’s always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you’re acting.
We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That’s the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
I don’t really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
When members of a certain party concoct various devious schemes to suppress votes, purposely misinform potential voters, spread vile untrue filth about certain candidates, play the race, gender and religious cards, and literally tamper with vote tallies, then we are not a truly representative government!
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