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• The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

  Jethro Tull

  Light, Politics, Doers

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Mean, Pay

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Youth, Illusion

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Acceptance, Self, Sin

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual lifetime she had never known anything like it. Had never tasted such a dark kiss, one that warned her he had no intention of making allowances for sensual inexperience. He was hungry. Needy. And she was the meal he craved.

  Lora Leigh

  Dark, Kissing, Hands

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• The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

  Andy Sawford

  Opportunity, Extra Help, Government

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?

  Julie Garwood

  Arguing, Realizing, Said

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g. Iron: 5 g. Silicon: 3 g. And 15 other elements in small quantities. That's the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowance. Humans are pretty cheaply made.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Children, Makeup, Average

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Manga by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

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• It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Moving, Home, Parent

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.182, Shambhala Publications

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• The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Government, Giving, Energy

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• What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, Future, Mean

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• Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Betrayal, Foibles

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• Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.

  Max Euwe

  Play, Weakness, Chess

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• Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Imperfection

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• . . . just as God cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, as we become more like Him, neither can we. The best people have a heightened awareness of what little of the worst is still in them! Indeed, the divine discontent, the justifiable spiritual restlessness that we feel, is a natural follow-on feeling in the disciple who has taken the Lord's counsel to "make you a new heart and a new spirit." (Ezekiel 18:31.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

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• There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.

  Janet Robertson

  Spiritual, Doors, Joy

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• A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Struggle, Acceptance, Expectations

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• Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.

  Craig Ferguson

  Men, Law, Evil

  Craig Ferguson (2007). “Between the Bridge and the River”, p.208, Chronicle Books

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• Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashion— although she did tend to stick to trends a little too precisely. The poor thing could not help it. Her choice of clothing simply lacked soul.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Choices, Soul

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• Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

  George Eliot

  Conjecture, Knows

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.785, Booklassic

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• Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Night, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  Nate Berkus

  Crazy, Kids, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.

  Iza Calzado

  Mistake, Starting Over, And Love

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