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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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• The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mistake, Circles, People

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• The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who 'care.' But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.

  Thomas Sowell

  Congratulations, Self, Indulge In

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• You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.

  Kalup Linzy

  Thinking, Talking, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.

  Chip Kidd

  Thinking, Ideas, Goal

  Chip Kidd (2002). “The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be simply and clearly present to whatever thoughts, sensations, or emotions occur.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Exercise, Simple, Meditation

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• Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Pride, People

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• Opening your chakras and allowing cosmic energies to flow through your body will ultimately refresh your spirit and empower your life.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Empowering, Energy, Body

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.70, New World Library

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• That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

  Megan Mullally

  Stupid, Keys, Looks

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• Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

  James Geary

  Thinking, World, Way

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• A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

  Philip Slater

  Community, Individual, Capacity

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• Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

  Alex Gibney

  Sneakers, Democracy, Fundamentals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?

  Remi Aubuchon

  Taken, Ideas, People

  "Executive Producer Remi Aubuchon Exclusive Interview PERSONS UNKNOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Choices, Competition, Fuel

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• Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Acceptance, Self

  Twitter post from Apr 5, 2012

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• The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.

  Umberto Eco

  Home, School, Opportunity

  "The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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