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• Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

  Richard Aldington

  Adventure, Hands, Unexpected

  Richard Aldington (2013). “Death of a Hero”, p.60, Penguin

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• Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Mean, Buddhism

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• You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

  Willis Lamb

  Advice, Affair, Deference

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• The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

  James Abourezk

  Lying, Hero, Government

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• When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything I have spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything.

  Betty Eadie

  Morning, Self, New Day

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• When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Creating, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.182, New World Library

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• Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

  Selma James

  Revolution, Telling The Truth, Rebellious

  Selma James (1983). “The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys”, Falling Wall Pr

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Creating, People, Plant

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Struggle, Grateful, Past

  "Doris Kearns Goodwin: Living With the Presidents". Interview with Susan Sarfati, www.pcmaconvene.org. January 1, 2014.

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• Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Winning, Order

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

  Ron Wyden

  President, United States, Watches

  "The Choice Should Be Yours" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  Patricia Briggs

  Gratitude, Please Me, Play

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• A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

  Cyril Connolly

  Travel, Past, Years

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.114, University of Chicago Press

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• It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living.

  David Whyte

  Loss, Thinking, Might

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

  Steve Kubby

  Brain, Mind, Visionaries

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• In a place that feels safe and private, constructively express your sadness by allowing yourself to cry. While crying, acknowledge your hurts and losses. Don't indulge any negative thoughts about yourself. Just keep telling yourself, "I'm fine. It's okay to cry. I just feel sad." You'll immediately feel washed clean, even joyful.

  Jude Bijou

  Hurt, Sadness, Loss

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• Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Evil, Sorrow

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• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Phoenix

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to do something else.

  Richie Hawtin

  Use, Computer, Boring

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• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  Larry Kramer

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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• Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

  Shakti Gawain

  Appreciate, Desire, Steps

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.9, New World Library

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• The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when youre being very real, when youre not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and whats morally right or ethically right.

  Meredith Brooks

  Spiritual, Real, Decision

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• Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.

  Jack Dorsey

  Real, Communication, Squares

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

  John Stossel

  America, People, Choices

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