“ To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries. ”
- Hasidic Saying- Copy
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“ There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory. ”
- Michael Levin- Copy
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“ A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not. ”
- Talmud- Copy
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“ De Pachmann, in my estimation, was a genius to whom everything was permissible. ”
- Harold Bauer- Copy
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“ We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism. ”
- Brothers Karamazov- Copy
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“ Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce. ”
- Claud Cockburn- Copy
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