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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Theodor Adorno | top
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle | top
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Never permit failure to become a habit. William Frederick Book | top
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess | top
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. Paul Cezanne | top
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I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties. Dennis Chavez | top
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. Gary Cooper | top
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Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do. Byron Dorgan | top
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Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. Suzanne Fields | top
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. E. M. Forster | top
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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 | top
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Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorthea Lange | top
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I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. Ben Lindsey | top
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. Adolf Loos | top
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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 | top
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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne | top
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Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. Arthur C. Nielsen | top
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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 | top
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I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule. David O. Selznick | top
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society. Natan Sharansky | top
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With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. Todd Solondz | top
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. Oswald Spengler | top
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? Barbra Streisand | top
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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. George Sutherland | top
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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 | top
