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• In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

  Rod Taylor

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Musical, Limits, Construction

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.132, Pendragon Press

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• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

  Robert Schumann

  Language, Music Is, Converses

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• We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

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• The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.

  Carl Schmitt

  Essence, Decision, Forever

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• The meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events  into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?

  Gangaji

  Thinking, Ideas, Events

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• No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

  Max Delbruck

  Inspirational, Dinosaurs, Study

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• I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

  David O. Selznick

  Schedules, Paramount

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• Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.

  Jack Parsons

  Names, Tyrants, People

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• Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Depressing, Culture Religion, Criticism

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• Reverence is an attitude of honoring life.
  Reverence automatically brings forth patience.
  Reverence permits non-judgemental justice.
  Reverence is a perception of the soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Attitude, Justice, Soul

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• They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

  John Milton

  Unity, Pieces, Body

  "Areopagitica". Book by John Milton, 1644.

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• One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

  Peter Carey

  Real, Character, Play

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• I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Philosophy, Party, Struggle

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• If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

  Tibor Kalman

  Stars, Color, Want

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• I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Gold, Use, Cotton

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• I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

  Mike Rutherford

  Gun, Thinking, Names

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• Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Nursing, Emotional, Race

  "How to Make the U.S. a Better Place for Caregivers" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.theatlantic.com. May 14, 2013.

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• What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?

  Greta Van Susteren

  Government, Years, Two

  "No Illegal Immigrant in His Right Mind Would Sign Up for President Obama’s Temporary Immigration Policy Change" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2012.

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• I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

  Nik Wallenda

  Years, Three, World

  "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  People, Identity, Experts

  "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

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• Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

  John Yoo

  Use, Conventions, Force

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• To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

  James R Newman

  Knowledge, Math, Talking

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1200, Рипол Классик

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• I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

  George Washington

  Men, Law, Wish

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.169

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• Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

  Seth Godin

  Competition, Categories, Yes Or No

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