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• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Spirit, Cooperation, Holy

  "Weekend (John 16: 7-15)" by Pastor Chris Kam,

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• I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

  Nellie Bly

  Giving, Asylums, Lasts

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

  Arthur Nielsen

  Perspective, Information, Clients

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• You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Affection, Stealing

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.331

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• Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

  Patricia Ireland

  Mean, Advice, Rubber

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• If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  States, Compulsion, Ifs

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• It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

  Lionel Trilling

  Spiritual, Contemplation, Badness

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• Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Love, Play, House

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• Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Energy, World

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

  Lord Byron

  Whispering, Littles, Stills

  Don Juan canto 1, st. 117 (written 1818)

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• Silence gives consent.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, War, Giving

  Oliver Goldsmith (1792). “The Good Natured Man: A Comedy”, p.28

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• The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

  George F. Kennan

  Lonely, Believe, Long

  GEORGE F. KENNAN (1967). “MEMOIRS 1925-1950”

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• I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

  John Entwistle

  Mean, Eighteen Years Old, America

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• Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

  Howard Thurman

  Mean, Commitment, Yield

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Inspirational, Motivational, Agreement

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• I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

  Pierre Laval

  Europe, France, Said

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• The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Party, Organization

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• When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

  Jock Sturges

  Years, Doubt, Informed Consent

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

  Zebulon Pike

  League, Three, Four

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.268

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• Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Masters, Force

  Algernon SIDNEY, Isaac Littlebury (1704). “Discourses concerning Government ... Published by I. Littlebury from an original manuscript of the author”, p.20

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• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.

  Richard V. Allen

  Soil, Common, Habit

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

  Will Durant

  Change, Civilization, Existence

  "What is Civilization?". Ladies' Home Journal, Volume LXIII, January 1946.

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• I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

  Pierre Corneille

  Honor, I Can

  "Le Cid". Tragicomedy by Pierre Corneille (Act II, Scene I), December 1636.

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• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.38, McGraw Hill Professional

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