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To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.

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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

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I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

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I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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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.

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Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

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I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

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I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

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Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

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I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

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You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

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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 to be short.

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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

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It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

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Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

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I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them.

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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

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I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.

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Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

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I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

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I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.

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Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.

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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.

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We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

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I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

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No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

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Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

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Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

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I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

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The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

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I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

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Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.

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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

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I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

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We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

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One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work.

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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

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I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

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This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

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I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

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We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

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The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

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I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.

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Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

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Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

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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 the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.

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At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

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No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.

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Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

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Getting bored is not allowed.

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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.

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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

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I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

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My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

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People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

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At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

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We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

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In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

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You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

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I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

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I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

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What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

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I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

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To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

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I must be allowed to be as I am.

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Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.

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The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

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So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.

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Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

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To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.

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