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• To break training without permission is an act of treason.

  John Heisman

  Training, Break, Treason

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• The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Giving, Waiting

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• What about Gale?" "He's not a bad kisser either," I say shortly. "And it was okay with both of us? You kissing the other?" He asks. "No. It wasn't okay with either of you. But I wasn't asking your permission," I tell him. Peeta laughs again, coldly, dismissively. "Well, you're a piece of work, aren't you?

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Laughing, Asking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• You now have permission to be strong and healthy and calm and relaxed. There's no place else to go. There's nothing else to do.

  Brad Willis

  Strong, Healthy, Calm

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• I am giving myself permission to love - ALL of it.

  Brenda Strong

  Giving

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• I am a Warner from God to America and the nations of the Earth by God's Permission. God is destroying America by degrees with The Forces of Nature, which you have no power against! ... The Death Angel is in America as we speak - these natural disasters are going to increase.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Angel, America, Degrees

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Spring, United States, Staff

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the city so she could be close to Olympus and oversee the rebuilding efforts. "And close to me?" I asked. "Well, someone's got a big sense of his own importance." But she laced her fingers through mine. I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought—just maybe—we were off to a good start.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, School, Cities

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• I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

  Rachel Caine

  Campus

  Rachel Caine (2009). “The Dead Girls' Dance”, p.28, Allison & Busby

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• If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.

  Melissa Marr

  Suffering, Arms, Way

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• To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

  Janet Jackson

  Confused, Long, Given

  Janet Jackson, David Ritz (2011). “True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  Banksy

  Rocks, Space, Giving

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• Just make sure you're gone by the time we get to Miles's. It creeps me out to see you sitting in his lap without his permission.

  Alyson Noel

  Gone, Sitting, Lap

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, People, Parent

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Mean, Kids

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.

  Marie Corelli

  Victory, Liberty, Gains

  Marie Corelli (1971). “Open Confession to a Man from a Woman”, p.14, Health Research Books

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• The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.... any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

  Banksy

  Running, Thinking, Rocks

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• I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Love, Hope, Giving Up

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Abide With Me”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.

  Karen Chance

  Men, Temptation, Spy

  Karen Chance (2006). “Touch the Dark”, p.226, Penguin

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• We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.

  Salman Rushdie

  Self, Secret, Crave

  Salman Rushdie (1995). “The Moor's last sigh”

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• It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

  Lora Leigh

  Forgiveness, Easier, Asks

  Lora Leigh (2012). “Lora Leigh: The Breeds Novels 7-11”, p.427, Penguin

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• To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

  Ai Yazawa

  Needs, Approval, Love Someone

  "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

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• It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

  Kate Brian

  Asking Permission, Asking For Forgiveness, Easier

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• A cat’s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,” Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. “You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.” Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cat, Thinking, Voice

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• I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Males, Wonderful

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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