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• I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place.

  John Thune

  New York, Central Park, Parks

  "John Thune vs. Central Park UPDATE". www.politico.com. July 22, 2009.

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• If the question is still asked why National Socialism combats the Jewish element in Germany so fanatically, the answer can only be, because National Socialism wishes to establish a real community of the people.  Since we are National Socialists, we cannot permit an alien race to impose itself upon our working people as their leaders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Race, People

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• Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
  [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
  Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

  Horace

  Men, Ordinary, Poet

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• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Racism, Typical

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fall, Adversity, Soul

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

  Marie Corelli

  Compassion, Way, Modern

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact”, p.348, The Floating Press

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• I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

  Salman Rushdie

  Giving, Technique, Alternatives

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Fashion, Encouragement, Adversity

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• The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  Emily Post

  Believe, Guests, Helping

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• The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

  Florence Nightingale

  Organization, World, Circumstances

  Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

  Madame de Stael

  Two, Diversity, Mind

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• There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Wine, Learning, Four

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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• Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Heart, Independence

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• We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

  Octavia Butler

  Confidence, Climbing, Higher

  Octavia E. Butler (2011). “Bloodchild and Other Stories”, p.149, Seven Stories Press

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• The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

  Agnes Repplier

  Thinking, England, Traits

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.49, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Escaping, Population

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• Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train,
  Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign
  Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,
  And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape,
  The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong,
  Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue,
  There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace,
  Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace,
  And when accomplish'd in her wayward school,
  Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.

  William Cowper

  Fashion, Hurt, School

  William Cowper (1837). “Poems; to which is prefixed a memoir of the author by J. M'Diarmid”, p.217

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• Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

  Ovid

  Years, Feet, Age

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• While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
  [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
  Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

  Ovid

  Feet, Years, Age

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• I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.

  Mary Collyer

  Laughter, Stupid, Practice

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• I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)

  Susan B. Anthony

  Atheist, Fighting, Years

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• It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

  Wayne Teasdale

  God, Sparks, Spirituality

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• Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

  John Paul Stevens

  School, Views, Answers

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• The majority of people permit relatives, friends,
  and the public at large to so influence them
  that they cannot live their own lives,
  because they fear criticism.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Criticism, Majority

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Mind, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.46, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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