be permitted to

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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. Thomas Jefferson

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist. Georg Brandes

I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. Andrew Johnson

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. Aldous Huxley

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess

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