#permits

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#bloom #bring #conceive #eternal #express

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#liberty #permits #right

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. ↗

— John Updike

#either #government #madness #magnitude #organized

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#joke #listen #lonesome #medium #millions

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#anybody #believe #democratization #eliminating #great

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#challenge #direction #father #god #i

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. ↗

— George Sutherland

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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. ↗

— Ovid

#character #cruel #faithful #liberal #liberal arts