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• Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

  Christopher Fry

  World, Fulfillment, Indulgence

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited

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• There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

  Vincent de Paul

  Justice, Charity, Acts Of Charity

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

  Earl Nightingale

  Laughter, War, Winning

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious.

  Robert S. de Ropp

  Religious, Passion, Objectivity

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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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• Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Sky, Earth, Philosopher

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• Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.

  Charles Colson

  Baby, Home, America

  "Bush Stares Into The Abyss" by Max Blumenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2005.

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• The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.

  Ron Paul

  Honesty, War, Order

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• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  Jack Abbott

  Suffering, Way, Innocence

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Temptation, Satan

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Law, Doe, Gestures

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• I do not permit affection or lack thereof to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected, the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil as a caution.

  Neil Gaiman

  Evil, Triumph, Action

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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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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• Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to Constitutional direction, regain our personal liberties and reassume the individual state's primary responsibility and authority in the conduct of local affairs? Are we going to permit a continuing decline in public and private morality or re-establish high ethical standards as the means of regaining a diminishing faith in the integrity of our public and private institutions?

  Douglas MacArthur

  Integrity, Mean, Responsibility

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

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• Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

  Ovid

  Art, Character, Faithful

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

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• While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Fate, Years

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• We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Home, Class, People

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• Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

  Linda Hogan

  Poetry, Parades, Strings

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• I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

  David O. Selznick

  Schedules, Paramount

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• The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

  Abe Fortas

  Freedom, Acceptance, Men

  Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience”

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• People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

  Alexander Herzen

  Dream, Sleep, 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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• 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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