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What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.
Edward Said
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There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.
Vincent de Paul
3.
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
Edgar Allan Poe
4.
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
Robert Schumann
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
Haile Selassie
6.
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
Neal A. Maxwell
7.
The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.
Mike Murdock
9.
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed
Paulo Freire
10.
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
George B. McClellan
11.
If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.
Nigel Farage
12.
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
Viola Spolin
13.
Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.
Ann Demeulemeester
14.
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
Daniel Berrigan
15.
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
Octavia Butler
16.
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
John Yoo
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I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
Vladimir Putin
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I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
E. L. Doctorow
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A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
Mark Strand
21.
Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.
Hart Crane
22.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
23.
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.
Noam Chomsky
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Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.
Zig Ziglar
25.
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
Napoleon Hill
26.
Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.
Linda Hogan
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The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.
Abraham Maslow
29.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
Saint Augustine
31.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
32.
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.
Benjamin Graham
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We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
Charles Darwin
34.
God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
Miguel de Molinos
38.
If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.
Suze Orman
39.
The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.
Henri Matisse
40.
Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.
Howard Coble
42.
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked
Donella Meadows
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God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
Saint Augustine
44.
You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.
Allyson Felix
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If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
Georges Courteline
46.
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
John Rawls
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To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.
Rudy Giuliani
48.
I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.
Nita Ambani
49.
Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
Christopher Fry
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Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
James Hansen