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• We must sometimes permit ourselves to begin things badly, just so that we begin them. Those who spend too much time preparing graceful entrances often never get to make them.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

  Portrait of James Boswell

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• With Storytelling, at least, it’s explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

  Todd Solondz

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  Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

  Carl Sagan

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• Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  William S. Burroughs

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• If there is no God, everything is permitted.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

  Frederick Soddy

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• If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

  Franz Kafka

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• Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good – for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

  Lawrence Lessig

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• People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

  Natan Sharansky

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• Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

  Theodore Dreiser

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