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• My calculations - allowing for a 12 percent margin of error, based on the radius of the corresponding confidence interval and the surgeon general's warning - concluded that they probably didn't stay behind for the tacos.

  Darynda Jones

  Errors, Warning, Tacos

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.53, Macmillan

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• Despite all the noise and hullabaloo - military cooperation, intelligence cooperation, all of that has continued. We have defended them consistently in every imaginable way. But I also believe that both for our national interests and Israel's national interests that allowing an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that could get worse and worse over time is a problem. And that settlements contribute.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Believe, Israel

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love, Relationship, Light

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.48, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• [...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

  Frederick Douglass

  Heart, Opportunity, Perfection

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• I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Fearless, Bathroom

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• -- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, People, Guarding

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “The Visible Man: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

  James Robertson

  Patience, Long, People

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• And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Struggle, Tragedy

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.124, Penguin

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• Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

  Susan Cain

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Numb, Left Behind

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

  Jonathan Sacks

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Light

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

  Edna O'Brien

  Book, Home, Men

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Missing, Being Weird

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2017

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• Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

  Paulo Coelho

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• To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

  Susane Colasanti

  Heart, Mean, Rejection

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “All I Need”, p.39, Penguin

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• I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

  Meg Tilly

  Waiting, Trying, Making Changes

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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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• It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight, Attachment, People

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• I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Redneck, Blow, Gun

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• Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.

  Jared Harris

  Different, Actors, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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