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Letter "P" » prohibit
«Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.»
Author: Freda Adler
| Keywords:
chooses, ethical, philosophical, pretensions, prohibit, rationalization, rationalizations, stripped
«The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.»
Author: Robert Nozick
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
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«The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
amendment, dominant, embarrassing, First Amendment, prohibit, prohibiting, prohibits, suppression, suppressions, widespread
«The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things»
«Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
calamity, Death itself, doubts, do away with, feared, omen, omens, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, superstitious
«The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.»
Author: Tom Lehrer
(Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Discrimination
| Keywords:
American Army, creed, discrimination, grounds, logical, prohibit
«If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...»
«Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
law, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, restrain, restraining, restrains, shame
«I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation b»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
declared, establishment, Establishment of religion, legislature, prohibit, respecting, sovereign
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