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• Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Country, Iraq, Safety

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• Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heart, Bitterness, Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast”, p.104, Charisma Media

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• We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

  Mac Thornberry

  Oil, Feet, Alaska

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• Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Gratitude, Powerful, Grateful

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• Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Life And Love, Attitude

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.53, Souvenir Press

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• Love changes us and helps us move forward in life. It often helps us become the people we've always wanted to be and move away from the people we were. Love transforms us in the best of ways, allowing us only to look back on a memory of our former self.

  Adam Wilde

  Memories, Moving, Romantic Love

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• The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Art, Lying

  Garry Kasparov (2017). “Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

  Dean Ornish

  Heart, Exercise, Vegetarian Diet

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• Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record. If someone hurts you repeatedly, you are commanded by God to forgive them instantly, but you are not expected to trust them immediately, and you are not expected to continue allowing them to hurt you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Hurt, Track

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• Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Being Positive, Religion

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• No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

  Douglas Hurd

  Military, War, Successful

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• Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.

  L. Tom Perry

  Justice, Decision, Chance

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• Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

  Georges Simenon

  Light, Hands, Giving

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• The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Privilege

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Art, Style, Ineptitude

  Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

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• It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics.

  Robin Dunbar

  Emotional, Views, Play

  Robin Dunbar (2011). “How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks”, p.170, Harvard University Press

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• It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Dream, Creativity, Frustration

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• Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

  Pema Chodron

  Sleep, Our Lives

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Moving, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Fragments, Perceive

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.117, Penguin

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• Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Compassion, And Love

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• In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.

  Evan Bayh

  Jobs, Responsibility, Technology

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• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

  Richard Aldington

  Adventure, Hands, Unexpected

  Richard Aldington (2013). “Death of a Hero”, p.60, Penguin

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• It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

  Dave Reichert

  Taken, Airplane, Overcoming

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