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- What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid…
- Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- Science does not permit exceptions. — Claude Bernard
- Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
- There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. — Luc de Clapiers
- The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been… — Nick Clegg
- The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — Jean Rostand
- It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that… — William J. Clinton
- In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who… — William J. Clinton
- Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein
- That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life.… — Jimmy Iovine