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• In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Nice, Race, Differences

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.233, Diversion Books

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• If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If it gets you excited and it's something you've never read before that's another plus. I think also with improv and that whole world of stand-up, that's a whole other organism of comedy that still needs a story, but it's more free-form. On the set, it is the combination of both those worlds coming together: a great script and an allowance to play with it.

  Sandra Bullock

  Thinking, Play, Together

  "Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy Talk THE HEAT, the Funniest Moment on Set, Their Chemistry, What BRIDESMAIDS Did for Female Comedies, and More". \interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Giving, Ungrateful

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

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• Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Bears, Harsh

  John Ross Macduff (1855). “The mind of Jesus”, p.59

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• The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

  John Wesley

  Infirmity, Humans

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Appreciate, Diversity

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

  Carl Rogers

  Choices, Groups, Individual

  "Carl Rogers on Personal Power" by Carl Rogers, (p. 113), 1977.

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• Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance.

  Esther Hicks

  Negative, Resistance, Emotion

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• The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Truth Is, Deny, Should

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.208

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• Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

  John Locke

  Virtue, Esteem, Praiseworthy

  John Locke, Anthony Douglas Woozley (1964). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.302, Hayes Barton Press

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• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  George Washington

  Mean, Army, Soldier

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.441

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• My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, Checks, Old Man

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.21, Zondervan

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• For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Mean, Eye

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

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• When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

  Sloane Crosley

  Opportunity, Cities, Ends

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.8, Penguin

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• Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

  Anatole France

  Women, Ugly, May

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.31, Anatole France

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• I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

  Lauren Conrad

  Kids, Years, Charity

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• Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Acceptance, Expression

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• A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Good Woman, Artistic

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• I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

  Harriet Harman

  Educational, People, Generations

  "Clegg Announces Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission" by Allegra Stratton and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2011.

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• Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Long, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 561), 1922.

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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• She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

  Anne Stuart

  Biting, Hours, Remarks

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• My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Hard Work, House

  "Financial Guru Dave Ramsey Tells Us What He Really Thinks About Millennials" by Mandi Woodruff, www.businessinsider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Hurt, Children, Home

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Summer, Nice, Garden

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