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• There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

  James Robertson

  Patience, Long, People

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• And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Struggle, Tragedy

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.124, Penguin

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• Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas can be shared quietly, they can be communicated in writing, they can be packaged into highly produced lectures, they can be advanced by allies. The trick for introverts is to honor their own styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

  Susan Cain

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful future of Syria to come together for national unity, for the political process. At the same time, it is a requirement for everybody to stop supporting the extremist groups, to stop allowing them safe passage, to stop allowing them to receive weapons, to stop allowing them to receive financial assistance, and to come together in actually fighting them.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Fighting, Extremist Groups, Government

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• Massachusetts became the first state to marry gay couples, though lawmakers say allowing gay couples to get married raises a lot of questions. You know, such as: does that best man invite both guys to the bachelor party?

  Jay Leno

  Couple, Party, Gay

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• I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Redneck, Blow, Gun

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• Often in films there's more of allowing the actors to make the dialogue fit better in their own. Also, you get to a location and the geography is different, so the lines don't line up the right way, so you do have to change stuff.

  Jared Harris

  Different, Actors, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting.

  Seamus McGarvey

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Guy, Comfort

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• It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight, Attachment, People

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• Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Lying, Waiting, Heaven

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• This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Responsibility, Issues

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• The biggest mistake we make in creating successful relationships is that we seek to experience who we are through others rather than allowing others to experience who they are through us.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mistake, Successful, Creating

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• The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Moving, Escaping

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• I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.

  Chris Christie

  Team, Russia, Ukraine

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

  Marco Rubio

  Years, People, Cards

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Pain, Numb, Left Behind

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

  Jonathan Sacks

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mother, Country, Light

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

  Edna O'Brien

  Book, Home, Men

  Edna O'Brien (2012). “Country Girl”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Missing, Being Weird

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2017

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• Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.

  Paulo Coelho

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• To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

  Susane Colasanti

  Heart, Mean, Rejection

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “All I Need”, p.39, Penguin

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