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• It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Holy, Made

  "Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

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• Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

  Jules Verne

  Justice, Boards, Dinner

  Jules Verne (1965). “Journey to the centre of the earth”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cutting, Eugenics, Waiting

  Buck v. Bell (1927)

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• Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Reading, People, Levels

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• 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

  Zadie Smith

  Weight Problems, Might, Academic

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.107, Vintage

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• We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

  Tom Stoppard

  School, Blood, Giving

  "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Couple, Doe

  Dan Savage (2005). “The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family”, p.79, Penguin

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• There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

  Prince

  Artist, Law, Records

  "Prince Wants Cover Songs Outlawed: What's the Best Cover Song of All Time?". www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Nature

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• Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Effort, Adherence

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

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• Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.

  Milton Friedman

  Support, Parent, Liberty

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not just the snip but the full mandatory covenant is fantastically painful, leads to trauma, leads to the dulling of the sexual relationship. And can be, in itself life-threatening at that moment. We have records, I can show them to you, of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds in the United States of boy babies who died or had life-threatening infections as a result of this disgusting practice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Baby, Atheist, Children

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• When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

  Jackie Stewart

  Fire, Air, Toxic

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• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Destiny, America

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Lying, Cities, Feet

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.23, Stanford University Press

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• While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Tolerance, Behavior, Made

  Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Clayton Pierce (2014). “Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume Six”, p.379, Routledge

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• Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, People, Giving

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• It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

  Arianna Huffington

  Adventure, Responsibility, Journey

  Arianna Huffington (2003). “Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

  Arsene Wenger

  Clubs, Arsenal

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• MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Suffering, Empowerment

  "Mommie Dearest" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.

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• Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Military, Voting Age, Years

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.

  John Holdren

  Law, Abortion, Growth

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• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Business, Believe

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• According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.

  Robert Klein

  Bullying, Teacher, New York

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• Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

  Christopher Hitchens

  School, Knows

  "Transcripts and audio: Christopher Hitchens on not believing". Interview With John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 26, 2010.

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