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«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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Africans, allowed, American values, ancient, centuries, imposed, native, Native American, not allowed, speakers, traditional
«The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.»
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
(Writer)
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allowed, begins, decisions, denied, importance, opportunity, regard, regard as, taking, The Man Who
«The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up»
Author: Charles Morgan
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Change,
Happiness,
Living
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allowed, allowing, Art of Living, clinging, consist, disappointed, grow up, mood, particular, preserving
«There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.»
Author: Dorothea Brande
(Editor, Writer)
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allowed, All of Us, destruction, Seeds, self-destruction, unhappiness
«The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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allowed, class, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, particular, represent, representatives, repress, repressing
«One who is allowed to sin, sins less»
«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.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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allowed, assumes, Doctor Who, guilty, guilty conscience, heresies, Heretics, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, leper, lepers, leprosy, recently, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, studies
«People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
allowed, pay for, to become
«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.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
allowed, compared, delectable, faculty, Faculty of, flower, lover, nevertheless, pluck, plucks, reborn, rose, spring, The Rose
«The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.»
Author: Will Rogers
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allowed, boulevard, boulevards, cars, highways, playgrounds, scarce, scarcer, scarcest, the country, traffic, traffics
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