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make room

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make room (third-person singular simple present makes room, present participle making room, simple past and past participle made room)

(idiomatic) To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.

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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. Immanuel Kant

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. Thomas Paine

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost. Richard Bach

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. Alan Lightman

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. G. E. M. Anscombe

The empty wagon must make room for the full one. German Proverb

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