“ To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. ”
- Mary Pettibone Poole- Copy
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“ The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 893
“ There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ”
- H.G. Wells- Copy
- 836
“ The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. ”
- John Wanamaker- Copy
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“ Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 405
“ It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. ”
- Cesar Chavez- Copy
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“ Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
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“ Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
- 583
“ The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ Grownups seemed to think that accidents of chronology should oblige children to get along. ”
- Robin McKinley- Copy
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“ I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
- 158
“ When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable. ”
- Paul De Gondi- Copy
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“ Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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