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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Silence

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln

Government, Save

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Love, Care, Themselves

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Power, Person, Tell

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy

Good, Future, Nothing

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou

Love, Trust, Women

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Aristotle

Good, Men, Jealousy

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou

Alone, Ignorance, Survive

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Happen, Understand

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Home, Children, Human

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

Praise, Prove, Tasted

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius

Knowledge, Hold

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler

Time, Art, Friend

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

Hate, Him, Soul

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck

Husband, Care, Wife

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.
Nelson Mandela

Life, Time, Next

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

Good, Joy, Happens

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.
Steve Jobs

Future, Stupid, Strong

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox

Positive, Mind, Thought

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Abdul Kalam

Give, Problem, Defeat

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.
Johnny Depp

Easy, Won, Drive

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
Richard Bach

Yourself, Live, Choose

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Find, Themselves, Deceived

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
Walt Disney

Around, Studio, Geniuses

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields

Money, Wrong, Keep

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Job, Woman

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Hard, Away

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner

Life, Die, Creativity

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