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Tag Name "Permit" (433)

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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
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We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.
Zhou Enlai
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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
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When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.
Steven Pinker
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
Henry David Thoreau
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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.
William J. Clinton
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It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
Fred Hoyle
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We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.
John Dewey
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To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.
James R Newman
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The super-salesman neither permits his subconscious mind to broadcast negative thoughts nor give expression to them through words, for the reason that he understands that like attracts like and negative suggestions attract negative action and negative decisions from prospective buyers.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
Alexander Hamilton
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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeish
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During waves of terror attacks, Israel's national police chief will call on all concealed-handgun permit holders to make sure they carry firearms at all times, and Israelis have many examples where concealed permit holders have saved lives.
John R. Lott Jr.
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Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.
John Calvin
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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
David Wilkerson
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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
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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
Henry A. Kissinger
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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
Pietro Aretino
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