#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

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

— Brigham Young

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In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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

— Howard Coble

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