Allowed Quotes
2088 quotes by 1698 authors
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I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas…
— Samuel Alito
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No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play…
— Olivier Messiaen
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Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time…
— Stephen Levine
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Let us assume that the Turks in whose ranks Europeans were fighting as well, even in high positions, would have conquered Vienna and Europe in…
— Heinrich Himmler
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We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort…
— Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out…
— Emil Kraepelin
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Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law…
— Eustace Mullins
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Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough…
— Colin Powell
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I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after…
— Kirsty Gallacher
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In this world of plenty, a tiny baby, who does not yet understand the mystery of the world, is allowed to cry and cry and…
— Muhammad Yunus
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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to…
— Jane Hirshfield
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Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it…
— Leonhard Euler
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In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
— Alan Kay
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I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed…
— Herbert von Karajan
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We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong…
— Mary Landrieu
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Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out…
— John Owen
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Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do,…
— J C Ryle
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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
— Allan Nevins
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