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- Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading — C.S. Lewis
- Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
- The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — Jean Rostand
- 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
- The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by… — Abraham Flexner
- It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but… — Alphonsus Liguori
- I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of… — Abraham Lincoln
- Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits… — Philip Neri