#enable

The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to. ↗

— John Lindsay

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You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds; ↗

— Robert Fanney

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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions. ↗

— Jim Evans

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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that. ↗

— Eric Cantor

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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. ↗

— Hans Kung

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What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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