#permit

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Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.


David Frost


#home #invention #living #living room #people

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.


Klaus Fuchs


#after #any #coming #could #decision

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.


Carlos Fuentes


#challenge #i #itself #mass #mass media

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.


Mahatma Gandhi


#opponent #permit #pursuit #truth #violence

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.


Walter Lang


#cannot #evil #god #good #how

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.


Adolf Loos


#building #changes #even #hundreds #improvement

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.


Archibald MacLeish


#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.


James Madison


#anywhere #darkness #despotism #done #everywhere

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.


John Malkovich


#given #grateful #i #learn #myself