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81 " If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast it only gets an R rating but if God forbid a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? "
82 " Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse. "
83 " Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! "
84 " At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family. "
85 " We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. "
86 " Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. "
87 " One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. "
88 " I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it. "
89 " I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. "
90 " Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights. "
91 " I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. "
