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• Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Lying, Integrity, Eye

  "Baghdad or Bust: The Inside Story of Gulf War 2". Book by Mike Ryan, 2003.

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• I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground, carried Scottish ground in his boots, I carry Concord ground in my boots and in my hat,--and am I not made of Concord dust? I cannot realize that it is the roar of the sea I hear now, and not the wind in Walden woods. I find more of Concord, after all, in the prospect of the sea, beyond Sandy Hook, than in the fields and woods.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Islands, Dust

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1230, e-artnow

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• Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Sex, Hands, Opposites

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• Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.

  Israel Meir Kagan

  Two, People, Say Anything

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• Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Kings, Stars

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• A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

  Francis Bacon

  Writing, Sparks, Faces

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici”, p.228, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

  Arthur Henderson

  Equality, Rights, Firsts

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• In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

  Talal Asad

  Hate, Character, Law

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• That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

  Debbie Harry

  Rocks

  "Alison Goldfrapp Meets Debbie Harry". Interview with Phoebe Reill, www.spin.com. April 8, 2010.

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• I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Views, Age

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• The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

  Paul Goodman

  Children, Long Ago, Profound

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 85), 1956.

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• Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Lust, Suffering, Path

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• The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

  Mao Zedong

  Light, Government, Cities

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• I am forbidden sugar, fat, and alcohol. So hooray, I guess, for oatmeal, lemon juice, and chicken soup.

  Mason Cooley

  Oatmeal, Alcohol, Dieting

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• Foolishness is doing ignorantly something forbidden repeatedly by sages since ages, and Madness is doing the very same prohibited thing repeatedly but intentionally.

  Anuj

  Age, Madness, Foolishness

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• It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Religious, Teacher

  Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1083, Best Books on

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• The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

  Larry Kramer

  Love, Hate, Ideas

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• For some years now, there has been proof that the devastating effects of the traumatization of children take their inevitable tollon society--a fact that we are still forbidden to recognize. This knowledge concerns every single one of us, and--if disseminated widely enough--should lead to fundamental changes in society; above all, to a halt in the blind escalation of violence.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Years, Fundamentals

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.285, Macmillan

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• A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mean, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.98, Broadview Press

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• Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Letting Go, Female

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
  But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

  Ovid

  Joy, Pleasure

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• American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

  Mark Jason Dominus

  Stance

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• In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  War, Men, Gambling

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.

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• The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Government, Office, Administration

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