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  • Alain Robert All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
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  • Arthur Henderson As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Barbara Walters But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Tacitus Forbidden things have a secret charm.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Anthony Hecht It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alexis Carrel Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Jean Genet Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Tryon Edwards Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Boris Pasternak That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Salman Rushdie The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Tschumi The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Tacitus Things forbidden have a secret charm.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ovid We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Barry Eisler When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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