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  • Barack Obama If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ben Marcus It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Lynn Harold Hough It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Lewis Mumford Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Auberon Waugh Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Barbra Streisand Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Michael Korda Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benazir Bhutto My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.
    Destinys daughter
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Horace Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ben Foster Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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