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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change, Capitalism, Small, Rich, Rules

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. Peter Marshall

Great, God, Blessing, Plan, Will, Out

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. Walter Cronkite

Daily, Politics, Journalism, Doing, Page

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions. Ben Hecht

Kindness, Integrity, Generosity, Proud

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F. Kennedy

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. John F. Kennedy

History, Live, Will, Lived, Like, Once

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. Leo Buscaglia

Good, Sad, Think, Eat, Table, Hunger

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, World, Enough, Giving, Goodness

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott

Direction, Reality, Feel, Down, Chicken

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution. Antonin Scalia

Change, Marriage, Death, Society, Values

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. - Michel de Montaigne

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Business, Better, She, Way, Her

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected. Vladimir Putin

Life, Private Life, Must, Respected

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. George Washington

Path, I Am, Me, Direction, You, True

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination, Yourself, Mind, Obstacles

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso

Life, Work, Happiness, Time, Hate, You

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him. Emraan Hashmi

Work, Communication, Heart, God, Time

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. Max Cannon

People, Society, Beyond, Social, Norms

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

Struggle, Decision, Yourself, You, Ready

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. Jack Henry Abbott

Deep, Innocent, Inside, Never, Weak

Why can you get a driver's license that is recognized state-to-state but a concealed weapons permit is not treated the same? There is a process to do that in a Trump administration because it makes sense. Donald Trump, Jr.

Process, You, Why, Sense, Get, Because

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? Greta Van Susteren

Work, Mind, Government, Information, Go

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art. Sholom Aleichem

Art, Myself, American, Will, Never, Give

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. Aristotle

Present, Down, Only, Bring, Desires

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

Truth, Violence, Opponent, Pursuit, Does

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. Nelson Mandela

Good, Policy, Nonviolence, Conditions

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights. George W. Romney

Others, Human, Rights, Human Rights

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. Francis of Assisi

Sun, Me, Name, Poverty, Treasure, Glory

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