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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian

Freedom, Human, Become

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler

Doubt, Dead, Judged

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace

Cannot, Once, Word

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.
Richard Dawkins

Fact, Looking, Read

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster

Freedom, Eyes, Practise

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
Dee Dee Myers

Humor, Hurt, Sense

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire

Mistakes, Enough, Style

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Margaret Cameron

Power, Angry, Someone

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus

Fun, Become, Serious

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley

Science, Study, Guilty

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
Marcia Wallace

Family, Matter, Everybody

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan

Love, True, Children

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Fool, Justice

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.
Joe Gold

Peace, Time, Good

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer

Age, Curious, Passing

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
Kerry Washington

Love, Family, Women

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes

Government, Before, Tax

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Paul McCartney

Keep, Artist, Opinions

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande

Grow, Bear, Seeds

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen

Energy, Easy, Fall

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb

Truth, Him, Less

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
Jennifer Aniston

Great, Fun, Someone

But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
David Bowie

Life, Work, Him

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
Carlos Ghosn

Good, Great, Leaving

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
Marquis de Sade

Different, Spring, Same

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
Allen West

War, Today, Long

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
Lady Gaga

Stage, Apartment, Bedroom

We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
Lady Gaga

Love, Humanity, Another

I went to the Rudolf Steiner School in New York, and you're not allowed to watch TV.
Jennifer Aniston

School, Watch, York

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Money, Women

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