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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

  André Maurois

  Games, Boxing, Hitting

  "El silencio del coronel Bramble". Libro de André Maurois, 1918.

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• En el Jardín del Edén, Eva mostró más valor que Adán cuando la serpiente le ofreció el fruto prohibido.
  Ella sabía que había algo mejor que el paraíso.

  César Borgia

  Jardín, Edén, Paraíso

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• Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Dark, Night, Pigs

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• Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

  François Rabelais

  Hombres, Largo, Honor

  "Gargantua (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Book II)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1534.

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• 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.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Punishment, Soul

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wish, Encounters, Sake

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• The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

  Arno Hintjens

  Brotherhood, Cost, Warning

  "Assassin's Creed: Unity". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

  Wilkie Collins

  Night, Temptation, Gowns

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• I've been taught ever since I was a kid that sex is filthy and forbidden, and that's the way I think it should be. The filthier and more forbidden it is, the more exciting it is.

  Mel Brooks

  Sex, Kids, Thinking

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• Women were forbidden to study the most ancient sacred text, the Veda.

  Wendy Doniger

  Vedas, Sacred, Study

  Wendy Doniger (2010). “The Hindus: An Alternative History”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.

  Henry Miller

  Use, Firsts, Navigation

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• Sólo puedo ser libre en la medida en que se prohíba a los demás beneficiarse de su superioridad física, económica o de otro tipo en detrimento de mi libertad.

  Emile Durkheim

  Liberty, Economic, Profit

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• Puedes hacer cualquier cosa. Nada está prohibido.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Puede hacer

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• Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished.

  Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

  Issues, Islam, Democracy

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.

  Luke Harding

  Military, Writing, School

  "War is raging in Aleppo but in a classroom 40km away, there are grounds for hope" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2012.

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• La ley debería prohibir todas las contribuciones de las empresas a cualquier comité político o para cualquier fin político.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Political, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.138, Cornell University Press

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• It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Art, Philosophy, Criticism

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• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Evil, Personality, Limits

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• ¡Qué rico es nuestro Dios! Da lo suficiente, pero nosotros no nos damos cuenta. Le dio el mundo entero a Adán, pero esto no era nada a los ojos de Adán; él estaba preocupado por un árbol y tenía que preguntar por qué Dios le había prohibido comerlo.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Giving, Tree

  Martin Luther (1967). "Charla de sobremesa"

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• I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Girl, Imagine, Imagine That

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• Se acaba con los sacerdotes y los dioses, si el hombre se vuelve científico. Moral: la ciencia es lo prohibido en sí misma, sólo ella está prohibida. La ciencia es el primer pecado, el germen de todo pecado, el pecado original. Sólo esto es mortalidad: No conocerás.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Firsts, Germs

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• I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Able, Assuming, Hardware

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• From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

  Yehuda Levi

  Tree, Sage, Fruit

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• Una vida que va excesivamente en contra del impulso natural es... probable que implique efectos de tensión que pueden ser tan malos como lo habría sido la indulgencia en impulsos prohibidos. Las personas que viven una vida que es antinatural más allá de un punto es probable que estén llenos de envidia, malicia y falta de caridad.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Envy, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.8, Routledge

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• The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

  Horace

  Humanity, Tendencies

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