#permit

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds. ↗

— Orville Wright

#command #considered #could #estimate #first

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. ↗

— Brigham Young

#children #never #our #ourselves #permit

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. ↗

— Andre Gide

#condition #except #go #good #greatest

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#capable #dignity #eternity #glimpse #important

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#arouse #awareness #conscience #continue #country

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. ↗

— George Sutherland

#amount #avoid #cannot #decrease #doubted

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States. ↗

— Howard Coble

#carry #concealed #currently #issued #most

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#envy #hate #into #loyalty #our

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. ↗

— Gary Cooper

#horse #kiss #never #permitted #were

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. ↗

— Georges Courteline

#life #necessary #oneself #other #people