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• God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, World, Facts

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.346

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• There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

  Rae Foley

  Fruit, Forbidden Fruit, Disillusionment

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• A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

  Francis Atterbury

  Sacrifice, Men, Good Man

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• Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

  Orville Dewey

  Sleep, Men, Relaxation

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• We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Fruit, Forbidden Fruit, Propensity

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• Everything edible is fried in Texas! Or it is buried in the ground to cook before it is eaten. ... Texas food should be forbidden! 'The steaks at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas!' And they are always afloat in grease. Next morning you are served a smaller steak, which serves as a platform for two fried eggs ... all of this afloat in the same grease! 'Chicken, you say? You bet! Comin' up!' Same grease! They are right. Comin' up! For hours afterwards. I couldn't believe the crust of an apple pie! Same grease!

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Heart

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• Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

  Marie de Gournay

  Wise, Sex, Women

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• science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

  Joan Robinson

  Science, Errors, Progress

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

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• ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

  James Madison

  Military, Government, President

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• I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

  Margaret Fuller

  Wisdom, Men, Inquiry

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.72

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• Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.

  Pope Pius XII

  Book, Reading, Tasks

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• Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?

  George Q. Cannon

  Angel, Names, Ideas

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• There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Saint George, England

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.

  Samuel Beckett

  Filth, Relish

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, World, Should

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153, 1991.

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• What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Angel, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.144, Yale University Press

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• In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit.
  She knew that there was something better than paradise.

  Cesare Borgia

  Garden, Eden, Paradise

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• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are of the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of an athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy.

  Guy Davenport

  Horse, Athlete, Pride

  "Eclogues: Eight Stories".

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• Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Purple, Victory, Dying

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.24, Modern Library

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• I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

  Mel Brooks

  Sex, Kids, Thinking

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• University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

  Allan Bloom

  Hunting, Issues, Conventions

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• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession, an atheist's repentance, true-to-life accounts of prostitution and bastardy gave our ancestors a penny peep into the forbidden room.

  Mary McCarthy

  Atheist, Eye, True Life

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

  Octavio Paz

  Ideas, Evil, Drug

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.86, Arcade Publishing

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• Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

  Louise Bogan

  Form, Subjects, Has Beens

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

  Muhammad Abduh

  God, Essence, Two

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