Allowed Quotes

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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. — John Selden
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. — Richard Strauss
Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed… — Mark Twain
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable… — Herodotus
Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away as much as… — Ma-Roo
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In… — Emily Oster
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be… — Leslie Jamison
It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is… — Dahr Jamail
Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness… — David Gaider
Give people, including yourself, clear permission to make mistakes . . . and to fix the problems. Since nobody's perfect, mistakes should be allowed. Cover-ups… — Price Pritchett
When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to… — Geena Rocero
Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of… — John W. Gardner
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude… — Jason Whitlock
Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is… — Andrzej Wajda
A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it… — Enoch Powell
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy. — Joseph D Mansueto

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