“ After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
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“ German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly. ”
- Elizabeth Dole- Copy
- 2K
“ Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
- 932
“ When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 945
“ To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
- 41
“ The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
- 1K
“ Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. ”
- John Berger- Copy
- 141
“ Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 363
“ By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls. ”
- Dan Rather- Copy
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“ I think the idea of ensemble should really be re-enforced and that's staying with the same group of people. In college troupes the turnover can be so fast and so furious that you don't ever really get to develop as a group, like who has different roles in the group and how is it working with all these people… ”
- Amy Poehler- Copy
- 474
“ The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
- 974
“ The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. ”
- peter kropotkin- Copy
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“ This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice… ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3K
“ I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. ”
- King Asoka of India- Copy
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