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• The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

  Mark Van Doren

  Teaching, Simple, Vision

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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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• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

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• The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.

  Margot Adler

  Real, Flower, Legends

  Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.38, Penguin

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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've been in a lot of indie movies, where we didn't necessarily have permits or permission. I've even run from the cops in the New York City subways!

  Gillian Jacobs

  Running, New York, Cities

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, World, Realizing

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.133, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro interest rate instead of what otherwise would have been its own. That would be much higher because Italy has been accumulating so much debt. In the past, Italy has inflated away its debt. The virtue of the euro is that Italy can't do it alone. A tight ECB policy wouldn't permit that to happen again.

  Milton Friedman

  Past, Would Be, Debt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Struggle, Rights

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• It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.

  Virgil

  Wind, Land, Sky

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• And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

  Carol Shields

  Stars, Thinking, Anxiety

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• It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator.

  Henry Miller

  Drama, Paris, People

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Believe, Order

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Yield, Risk

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• It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Lying, Mind

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.51, Paulist Press

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• The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our ancestors who are waiting for our help. Through our efforts in holy temples here on earth using the authority delegated by the Savior, our progenitors receive the saving ordinances that allow them to enjoy eternal happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Heart, Keys, Waiting

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• God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hate, Order, Accomplish

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• The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.

  Mike Murdock

  Treatment

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• Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Gun, Doe

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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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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• Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Should

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Cosmos, Voyages

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books

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• These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

  Chris Grayling

  Media, Coward, Troll

  "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.

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