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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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• The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Equality, Would Be, Way

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• We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupations. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living-a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit of reasonable saving for old age.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Immature, Age, Normal

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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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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• For men, it's absolutely essential to stop believing that they're superior to women because that very belief engenders ego, which sets them off-balance. Therefore, they don't realize that they're being manipulated by the second attention of woman because their ego won't permit them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Believe, Ego

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• Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together. Love permits us to see who and what we are. The only thing that will truly inspire us to find the dharma is love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Love Is, Together Love

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• Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

  Henry Adams

  Marriage, Passion, Men

  Henry Adams (1973). “Historical Essays”, p.6, Georg Olms Verlag

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• True repentance does not permit repetition.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Doe, Repentance, Repetition

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Should Have

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• Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, President, Roles

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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• I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Views, Expression, Law

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, Class, Prosperity

  Karl Marx (1997). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II”

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

  Diane Ackerman

  Way, Nuggets, Moments

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• We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Uncles, Oil, Energy

  Gerald R. Ford's speech as Vice President to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in West Palm Beach, Florida, January 26, 1974.

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• In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

  Gunter Grass

  Growth, Needs, Chance

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• Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

  Fernando Botero

  Real, Giving, Sculpture

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• A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if he’s good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn’t expect to see.

  Leon Levinstein

  Eye, People, Littles

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• Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the possibility that they might fight amongst themselves. Surrender to them would not encourage the kingdom of peace and love - and those that desire it, or with passionate intensity permit it, know not what they do.

  Michael Novak

  Peace, War, Blessed

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• One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, War, Order

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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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