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• I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

  Hugo Grotius

  Christian, War, Fighting

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• Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored?" "Maybe." "Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger ... corporation?" "Whatever." "By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons."

  Robert Slade

  Running, Men, Bored

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• License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

  John Milton

  Love, Wise, Mean

  "I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)

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• The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.

  Howard Gossage

  Hunting, Space, May

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• I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

  Anne Tyler

  Baby, Thinking, Waiting

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• A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be set at a level sufficient to assure safe practice, but low enough to avoid screening out those individuals who choose to perform basic work

  Bob Benson

  Practice, Skills, Different

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• What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Want

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

  Sam Ewing

  Drivers

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• The camera basically is a license to explore.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Cameras

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• Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.

  Eustace Mullins

  Years, Ideas, Titles

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• The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character.

  Martin Luther King III

  Mother, Children, Father

  "50 Years After March on Washington, Tens of Thousands Say Struggle for MLK’s “Dream” Continues". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 26, 2013.

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• I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.

  Anna Sui

  Responsibility, Ideas, Runway

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• Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Gun, Bulletproof Vest, People

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• The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

  Mark Frost

  Ideas, Icons, Superhero

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• An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government has exercised virtually unchecked power over those it has detained.

  Jamie Fellner

  Rip, Block, Book

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• Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

  Boris Beizer

  Perfect, Missing, Quality

  Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

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• Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God... Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.

  Jerry Bridges

  Appreciate, Giving, Grace

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.161, NavPress

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• So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens 'illegals' in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for '22 years.'

  Michelle Malkin

  Friday, Country, Exactly Is

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• Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.

  Daniel Starch

  Self, Facts, Merit

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• The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Giving, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Doubt, Want

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• What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.49, Penguin

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• England has been praised for turning out intelligent, adult pictures whereas Hollywood has been severely censured for turning out junk. I don't think criticism is a valid one because, in defense of Hollywood, we have censorship problems England doesn't have. I'm not speaking of the license to do sexy stuff. I'm speaking of the license to present adult ideas and viewpoints, which we lack and which means in turn that many of our pictures lack intelligent content.

  John Garfield

  Sexy, Mean, Intelligent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for anything at all. Hello Kitty never has been, and never will be, anything. She's pure license; you can even get a Hello Kitty car! The branding thing is completely out of control, but it started as nothing and maintains its nothingness. It's not about the ego, and in that way it's very Japanese.

  Tom Sachs

  Icons, Car, Ego

  "Ichiban". www.wired.com. September 01, 2001.

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• A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Poetic License, Novelists, Poetic

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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