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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Forgive, Nor

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Nothing, Write

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

Life, Time, God

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.
Steve Jobs

Control, Between, Reason

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett

Life, Trying, System

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness, Good, Great

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Travel, Science

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
George Orwell

Good, Men, Technical

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Bill Hicks

Creative, Outsider, Kick

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

Life, Pain, Human

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.
Robert Kiyosaki

Yourself, Game, Mirror

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
Fred Melamed

God, Children, Done

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst

Hope, Fear, Laughter

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston Bachelard

Peace, Dream, House

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

Religion, Freedom, Society

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.
Jay Leno

Women, Men, Successful

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
P. J. O'Rourke

Success, Failure, Happen

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Demetri Martin

Great, Camera, Invention

The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.
Marco Rubio

Family, Children, Free

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis

Work, Yourself, Single

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne

Music, Alone, Amazing

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart

Laughter, Step, Move

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus

Crime, Oppression, Shares

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
Jane Fonda

Yourself, Forgive, Wrong

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal

Hypocrisy, Vagueness

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.
Giacomo Casanova

Passion, Everything, Liberty

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine Albright

Hope, Country, Here

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
Doug Coupland

Anywhere, Nowhere, Clothing

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
Doug Coupland

Future, Past, Though

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck

Love, Change, Marriage

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