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• I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

  Maud Newton

  Procrastination, Thinking, Urgency

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• When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Night, People

  Obama Wall Street Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2009.

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• Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.

  Pat Croce

  People, Goal, Focus

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• I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Fashion, Independent

  "The world's first wrap star" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

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• George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

  Marlon Brando

  Thinking, Wrath, Hatred

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• A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Yield, Order, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

  Ian McLeod

  People, Over You, Comedy

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Israel, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Exercise and good nutrition helped make me what I am today and are critical in allowing me stay on top of my game.

  Chris Paul

  Exercise, Games, Today

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• Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Water, Feelings, Letters

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• ...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology  to permeate every aspect of our lives.  In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety...  While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Morris Berman

  Fate, Technology, Two

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

  Dean Radin

  Fall, Brain, Mind

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Writing, Sublime, Lessons

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• I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

  Phyllis Rose

  Believe, Needs, Literature

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• I don't consider myself a shy person necessarily, but there's something about getting under the skin of a character and allowing you an abandon or a sense of courage that you would never have in your own life.

  Cillian Murphy

  Character, Skins, Shy

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking

  "Theaster Gates’ Monastic Orders". Interview with Ann Binlot, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2014.

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• What I love is when I'm in the theater with audiences and I hear them laugh. That's such a relief to me. They're going on the ride and they're allowing themselves to enjoy it, even though we're traversing some dark waters.

  Francesca Gregorini

  Dark, Love Is, Water

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

  Carles Puyol

  Football, Brain, Special

  "Time flies: Lionel Messi marks 10th anniversary of his Barcelona debut". m.espn.com. October 14, 2014.

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• The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

  Theodore Beale

  Herds, Butchers, Interest

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.

  John Bytheway

  Inspiration, Mind, Scripture

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• Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Balance, Lines, Physics

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• If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.

  Tony Campolo

  Intimate Relationships, Giving, Care

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• Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hot, Pot, Back Burner

  Dr Charles R Swindoll (1982). “Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back”

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