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• Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is.

  Rajneesh

  Expectations, Mind, Demand

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• A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has no obligation to you. But if you live without intentions, without expectations, then miraculously you find that everything that you ever dreamed of is being fulfilled. The moon is reflected in the lake - the lake never asked it, the moon never intended it. Existence goes on spontaneously. Don't bring your desire, your ambition and your expectation; they are the disturbing points. They create a chaos in your mind.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Frustration, Moon

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• You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Expectations, Frustrated

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• If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy the very mind that creates those expectations. If you come to me, never come with expectations, otherwise you will be disappointed - because I have no obligation to fulfill your expectations in any way. In fact, if I see that there are some expectations, I do things DELIBERATELY to destroy those expectations. That is the price you have to pay to be with me.

  Rajneesh

  Expectations, Mind, Pay

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• I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Life, Death, Pain

  "Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews".

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• It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

  Edward Abbey

  Independent, Honor, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, World Literature, Certain

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• It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Notable, Constitution

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• Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

  George Washington

  Religious, Individual Happiness, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.369

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• The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

  James Madison

  Country, Eye, Justice

  James Madison (1867). “1816-1828”, p.473

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• I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Heaven, Faithful

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted to mean that we will not honour international obligations. I want to say for the purpose of the record that there is nothing that has been said on behalf of the Government of India which in the slightest degree indicates that the Government of India or the Union of India will dishonour any international obligations it has undertaken.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Government, India

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Differences, Making A Difference, World

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• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Player, Vision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

  Charles Hodge

  Moral, Conformity, Resolve

  Charles Hodge (1874). “Soteriology, eschatology”, p.260

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• An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hero, Dark, Artist

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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• The fact has not created in me
  A sense of obligation.

  Stephen Crane

  Facts

  "A man said to the universe" l. 1 (1899)

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• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Generations, Extinction

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• I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Sleep, Fighting

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.129, Penguin

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• The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Real, Sleep, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Unexpected, Position, Particular

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• Ah, did we but rightly understand what the demerit of sin is, we would rather admire the bounty of God than complain of the straithandedness of Providence. And if we did but consider that there lies upon God no obligation of justice or gratitud to reward any of our duties, it would cure our murmurs (Gen. 32:10).

  John Flavel

  Lying, Justice, Complaining

  John Flavel (1820). “The whole works of John Flavel: late minister of the gospel at Dartmouth, Devon”, p.398

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• Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

  Clementine Ford

  Girl, Hurt, Women

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