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• For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth.

  Heinrich Bullinger

  Mirth, Lord, Theologian

  Heinrich Bullinger, Harding (1850). “The Decades of H. Bullinger ..”, p.55

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Children, Pain

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Laughing, Christian Inspirational

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• After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.

  Diane Ackerman

  Coffee, Flavor, Bitter

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.141, Vintage

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• Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings.

  Al-Ghazali

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Garden, Essence

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• Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

  Milan Kundera

  Dog, Animal, Law

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• I am not in the least forbidden. You may sample me all you choose.

  Lora Leigh

  May, Sample, You Choose

  Lora Leigh (2016). “Wicked Pleasure:”, p.104, St. Martin's Griffin

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• girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Husband, Complexion

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

  Meg Cabot

  Desire, Molecules, Answers

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries: Ten Out of Ten”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

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• American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

  Pat Conroy

  Patience, Women, Grief

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

  William S. Burroughs

  Children, Boys, Yellow

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Forbidden Forest looked as though it had been enchanted, each tree smattered with silver, and Hagrid's cabin looked like an iced cake.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cake, Tree, Cabins

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• Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ignorant, Censorship

  "Picasso". Book by Antonina Vallentin (p. 168), 1963 (1957).

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• For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Hair, Heaven

  Martin Luther (1989). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sex, Men, World

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Solitude, Originality, Absurd

  Thomas Mann, Stanley Appelbaum (1995). “Death in Venice”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Emotion, Consciousness

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• As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

  Richard Kadrey

  Past, Technology, Thinking

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• It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

  Anatole France

  Political, Poor

  Anatole France (2008). “Crainquebille”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Humanity, Truth Is

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• A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Degrees, Banking

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• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  Karen Armstrong

  Home, Cities, Discipline

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

  Tina Fey

  Dressing Up, Comedy, Dressings

  "Tina Fey Says a '30 Rock' Reunion Would Only Happen in Imax" by Emily Zelmer, www.elle.com. September 23, 2013.

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