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• I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Iraq, Sovereign

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• Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

  Laurel Clark

  Parent, Influence, Wanted

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• I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

  LL Cool J

  Trying, Evolve, Grows

  Billboard.com interview, www.billboard.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Book, Feminism, Internet

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

  Scott Hamilton

  Teacher, Ninth Grade, Grades

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• The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Way, Internet, Storytelling

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.

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• There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Literature, Comedy

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• I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Creating, Giving

  "Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

  Neil Gaiman

  Self, People, Empathy

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.12, HarperCollins

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• I'd like to thank the BBC for allowing me to work here. And I'd like to thank the wife and kids for making it necessary.

  Les Dawson

  Kids, Wife

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.

  Helen Fielding

  Cheer, Clothes, Criticize

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as propagating the teachings of some of the most bizarre cults. The only vital difference is that the cults are less dangerous because their errors are more identifiable.

  Jay E. Adams

  Teaching, Errors, Differences

  Jay E. Adams (1986). “A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Thank You, Dog, Giving

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• You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word which, like seed sown in good soil, brings abundant fruit. Thus you will remain docile to the Spirit and grow in union with God, you will cultivate fraternal communion among yourselves and be ready to serve your brethren generously, especially those most in need.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Needs, Unions, Soil

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• So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way, and not interfering in any way whatsoever - just remaining watchful, witnessing. It silences, by and by, it becomes still. One day it is gone. You are left alone.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Silence, Effort

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• I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Kids

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• An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner.

  Wayne Dyer

  Emotional, Energy, Flow

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.139, Hay House, Inc

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• Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It is a state of non-doing. You simply relax and you enjoy the feeling of relaxation. Relax into yourself, just close your eyes, and listen to all that is happening all around. No need to feel anything as distraction. The moment you feel it is a distraction, you are denying God. This moment God has come to you as a bird. Don't deny.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Mean, Eye

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• The whole art of allowing the truth to take possession of you is of being vulnerable, of being open, of being in a let-go. Or in other words, the whole art consists of one word, "surrender". And that's what sannyas is, that's my definition of a sannyasin: a man who is surrendered to existence so totally that he never thinks in terms of achievement any more, because he is no more. Who is there to achieve? - he has disappeared totally, he has not left even a trace behind. In that very moment, when you are just a pure nothingness, truth arrives. It is a gift of God.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Art, Men

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• A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.

  John Gummer

  Hunting, People, Lasts

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• One of the most commonly overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart. It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Heart

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• In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

  Betty Williams

  Children, World, Carnage

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• Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Inspiration, Mean

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• Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

  David R. Brower

  Years, Luxury, Energy

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