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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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• I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.

  Karen Hawkins

  Love, Christian, Eye

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• There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

  Patty Hearst

  Gun, Hands, Car

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• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

  George Chapman

  Hatred, Too Much, Doe

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• For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

  James Brady

  Home, Gun Control, Police

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• In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

  Joe Baca

  Government, Track, Borders

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• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  Bill Moyers

  Events, Different, Journalism

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Ugly, Insult

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom proclaims a kind of general amorality. It is a caricature of freedom to claim that people are free to organize their lives with no reference to moral values, and to say that society does not have to ensure the protection and advancement of ethical values. Such an attitude is destructive of freedom and peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Attitude, Names

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• Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's license to receive it.

  Thomas Hardy

  Often Is, Giving, Bishops

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.4103, Delphi Classics

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• Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

  Hugh Nibley

  Men, Dominion

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is...not us." "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes." "Well, he's Jewish." "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?" ..... "...you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Eye, Son

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• So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

  Greg Graffin

  Simple, Principles, Habitat

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• But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Money, Artist, Financial

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• My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

  Josh Turner

  Dream, Cowboy, Sight

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• Personal liberty is not personal license.

  Billy Sunday

  Liberty, Personal Liberty

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Gun, Car, Risk

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• In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.

  Eliot Spitzer

  New York, Political, Arena

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• Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

  Steven Spielberg

  Poetic License, Historical, Lists

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

  Gene Simmons

  Rocks, People, Attention

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• The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Opportunity, Understanding

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• Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

  Bertrand Russell

  Liberty

  "Fact and Fiction".

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• Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Stealing

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• Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

  Rose Kennedy

  Money, Helping Others, Opportunity

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