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Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us. -- Christopher Fry
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. -- Sarah Churchwell
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. -- E. M. Forster
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. -- Virgil
If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns. -- Suze Orman
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. -- Henry Miller
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. -- Georges Courteline
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. -- Sigmund Freud
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. -- Sydney J. Harris
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. -- Ovid
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. -- David Frost
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. -- Alan Dershowitz
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate. -- James Hansen
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. -- T. S. Eliot
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. -- Erich Fromm
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years. -- Vladimir Lenin
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines. -- Rod Stewart
The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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
I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us. -- Russell Smith
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power. -- Sloane Crosley
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us. -- Sam Harris
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. -- Henri Poincare
Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now. -- Octavio Paz
If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood. -- David A. Bednar
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. -- Peter Singer
The law often permits what honor prohibits. -- Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. -- Napoleon Hill
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed. -- Mason Cooley
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. -- Baron de Montesquieu
In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. -- Victor Hugo
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. -- John Updike
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. -- Robert Payne
If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that. -- Nigel Farage
God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed. -- Elaine A. Cannon
As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains. -- Fausto Cercignani
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. -- John Updike
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow. -- Max Lucado
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken. -- Pietro Aretino
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond. -- Robert Schumann
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation. -- St. Catherine of Siena
...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits. -- Rebecca Solnit
Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States. -- Howard Coble
It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans. -- Marian Wright Edelman
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. -- E. M. Forster
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. -- Ovid
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. -- Jean Rostand
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler. -- Teresa of Avila
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind. -- Napoleon Hill
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings. -- Billy Graham
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. -- Frank Sinatra
Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case. -- Theodor Adorno
All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous. -- Paracelsus 1493-1541
Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt. -- Robert H. Schuller
Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons. -- Gichin Funakoshi
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading -- C. S. Lewis
Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. -- Emile Capouya
Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again. -- Ann Demeulemeester
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives -- William C. Dement
I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am. -- Nita Ambani
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. -- Fred Allen
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. -- Thomas Jefferson
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology. -- Noam Chomsky
...A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions." -- Karen Russell
The most crazed religious fanatic argues in more calm and reasoned tones than liberals responding to statistics on concealed-carry permits. -- Ann Coulter
Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular. -- Madeleine Vionnet
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no. -- Seth Godin
A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions. -- Karen Russell
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it. -- Michael Merzenich
In actual practice, someone is regarded as being "too liberal" if his conscience permits something that my conscience does not permit. -- Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. -- Saint Augustine
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot
I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity. -- Terence McKenna
Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good! -- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. -- Charles Darwin
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts. -- Og Mandino
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed. -- Daniel Berrigan
Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul. -- Gary Zukav
What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence. -- Dennis Kucinich
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
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. -- Iannis Xenakis
Every answer I seek lies within me. Any outward seeking for my answers can only take me as far as my inner self permits. -- Pooja Ruprell
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. -- Miguel de Molinos
I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is. -- Wole Soyinka
Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave. -- Theodore Dreiser
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
The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge. -- Norman Thomas
How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. -- Marvin J. Ashton
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse. -- Sigmund Freud
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship. -- Oliviero Toscani
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. -- Charles Spurgeon
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state. -- Joseph Brodsky
In a typical situation, it's going to take pretty close to a year to get your location in, get your permits, and then get open. -- Fred DeLuca
Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course. -- Henry Beard
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems. -- Jeff Goodell
The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science. -- Abraham Maslow
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide. -- John M Swomley
When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level. -- Vijender Singh
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power. -- Alan Lightman
The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. -- Johannes Brahms
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change. -- Malcolm X
The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food. -- Hernando Cortes
Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business. -- John Mica
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. -- Andre Gide
Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business. -- John Mica
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
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
The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live. -- Herbert Ratner
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
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. -- Erich Fromm
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. -- Viola Spolin
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. -- Johannes Tauler
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures and is unforgiving of mistakes. -- Henry Joy McCracken
States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated. -- Susan Orlean

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