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• The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

  George W. Romney

  Rights, States, Expenses

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• To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

  Barry Lopez

  Order, Giving, Imagination

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• I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Commitment, Years, Worry

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

  Marcia Angell

  Country, Bears, United States

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• Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

  Jay Leno

  Vocabulary, Issues, Tolerance

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• I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

  Tom Hayden

  Thinking, People, March

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• Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Cheerful, Poor

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2121, Delphi Classics

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Character, Men

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• In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Google, Library

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• Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

  Ken Burns

  Mean, People, Would Be

  "Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2012.

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• It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

  Walter J Chantry

  Christian, Doe, Use

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• Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

  David K. Shipler

  Lying, Self, Use

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• I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

  Nita Ambani

  Daughter, My Daughter, Cooks

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• I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

  Mason Cooley

  Imagination, Figments, Bowels

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• Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Fate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

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• The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of your income and I permit you to keep 5%, 10% or 20%. You're vulnerable, you've sold out. The government can take 80% if they want, which they did at one time.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Income, Irs

  "Ron Paul | Candidates at Google". Interview with Elliot Schrage, www.youtube.com. July 14, 2007.

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• we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  God, Enjoy Life, Ease

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• No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Communication, Acceptance, People

  "Economics As A Moral Science" (1969) by Kenneth E. Boulding (p. 2), as quoted in "Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist" by John B. Davis, 2011.

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• We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Giving, Evil

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.531

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• The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Worried, Advantage

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.

  Warren Buffett

  Good Night, Sleep, Order

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.198, John Wiley & Sons

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• Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.

  Rene Descartes

  Situations In Life, Worthwhile Things, Judging

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• On paper curiously shaped
  Scribblers to-day of every sort,
  In verses Valentines ycled'd
  To Venus chime their annual court.
  I too will swell the motley throng,
  And greet the all auspicious day,
  Whose privilege permits my song
  My love this secret to convey.

  Henry George Bohn

  Song, Valentine, Secret

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