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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,… — Henry David Thoreau
Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent. — Kim Fowley
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness… — Pope Pius IV
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,… — John C. McAdams
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to… — Olof Palme
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. — Glenn Ford
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on… — Michael Crichton
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… — David Attenborough
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated… — Adolf Hitler
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth. — Rachel Naomi Remen
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.… — Thomas Merton
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would… — Soren Kierkegaard
To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was… — Ernest Hemingway
If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl… — Soren Kierkegaard
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want… — Noam Chomsky

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