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• When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Humble, Hands, Charity

  Hamza Yusuf (2004). “Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart : Translation and Commentary of Imam Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub”, Starlatch Press

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• Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Breathing, Meditation

  Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.32, Penguin

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• I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Strong, Moving, Often Can

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.

  Jillian Michaels

  Journey, Long, Self Improvement

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• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Data, Police

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• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Engineering, Kansas, Graduates

  Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.126, AuthorHouse

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• I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

  Wallace Shawn

  Beautiful, Men, People

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

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• I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

  Jill Scott

  Fashion, Thinking, Skins

  "Jill Scott Gold Grill: Singer Rocks Dental Bling At Essence Festival & Talks Personal Style (PHOTOS)" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2013.

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• The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.

  Chris Avellone

  Player, Path, Stories

  "What People Who Make Video Games Think Of Westworld". Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.gizmodo.com.au. November 11, 2016.

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• It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

  John Stuart Mill

  Feelings, Doctrine, May

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Two

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• It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Work, Mistake, People

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• In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Moving, Law

  "Colin Powell endorses gay marriage" by Tim Mak, www.politico.com. May 23, 2012.

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• An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

  Sidney Poitier

  Numbers, Directors, Cost

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• I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

  Sting

  Thinking, Arena, Claims

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• Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

  Angie Stone

  Self, Light, God Love

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• For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Thinking, Drug

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• Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

  Alfre Woodard

  Trying, Agnostic, Figures

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• The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

  Hayley Williams

  Occupation, Want, Matter

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• I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

  Rick Warren

  Dog, Heaven, Imagine

  "Do Dogs Go to Heaven?" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2015.

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• I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

  Horace Walpole

  Political, Politics, Way

  Horace Walpole, John Wright (1840). “The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts”, p.313

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• Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Kentucky, Texas, Constitution

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• If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

  Emma Thompson

  Writing, Interesting, Creative

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• Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

  James Surowiecki

  Book, Technology, Space

  "Feature Presentation". www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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