Allowed Quotes
2088 Allowed quotes by 1659 unique authors
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure…
— Bertrand Russell
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has…
— Marquis de Sade
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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
— John Ralston Saul
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Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
— Francis Schaeffer
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The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it,…
— Curt Schilling
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A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd…
— Rob Schneider
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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs…
— Martin Scorsese
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Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says…
— Jill Scott
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
— Fiona Shaw
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you…
— Shel Silverstein
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Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're…
— Wilbur Smith
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A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate…
— Thomas Sowell
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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
— Lysander Spooner
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Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see…
— Lysander Spooner
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
— Barbra Streisand
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
— Ralph Steadman
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I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just…
— Peter Steele
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did…
— Ben Stein
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Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll…
— Ben Stein
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I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of…
— Cat Stevens
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It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.
— Joss Stone
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Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there.…
— James Surowiecki
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