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• For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Goes On

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

  Rebecca West

  Home, Sacrifice, Self

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• I haven't heard Obama ask us for our consent when he's trying to ram Obamacare down our throats.

  Rafael Cruz

  Obamacare, Trying, Rams

  "WATCH: Ted Cruz’s Dad Calls US a 'Christian Nation,' Says Obama Should Go 'Back to Kenya'" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.

  William Griffith Thomas

  Heart, Mean, Men

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• Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Stolen

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• It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Routine, Conformity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• Fate does not always seek our consent.

  Zedd

  Fate, Doe

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• If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

  Edward S. Herman

  War, Political, Community

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• As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Country, Government, Democracy

  Chalmers Johnson (2010). “Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope”, p.34, Metropolitan Books

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• We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sex, Children, Struggle

  "Speak' author: 'We as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2014.

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• Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people; so that there may be no interference with the right to worship, or with the security of the home; no arbitrary imposition of pains or penalties by officials high or low; no restrictions on the freedom of men to seek education or work or opportunity of any kind, so that each man may become all he is capable of becoming.

  Robert Kennedy

  Pain, Home, Opportunity

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

  Gary Bauer

  President, Cabinets, Confirmation

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• One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

  Kyle Chandler

  Jobs, Taken, Character

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

  Albert Camus

  Judgement, Essentials, Share

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone who tries to settle in my Territory without my consent will be dealt with. Anyone who harms any of my people will be executed. There will be no excuses and no exceptions. I will say it simply so that the members of this Council and the intruders who thought to take land they had no right to claim can never say they misunderstood." Jaenelle's lips curled into a snarl. "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY!

  Anne Bishop

  Land, People, Misunderstood

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• Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

  Primo Levi

  Skeletons, Civilization, Stories

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Blood, Despair

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

  Saint Augustine

  Blessing, Men, Doe

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• The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

  Dawn Johnsen

  Pregnancy, Drunk, Loser

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• Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Giving, Flaws, Crime

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• The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hands, Feelings, Grace

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• What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.

  David R. Brower

  Technology, Growth, Goes On

  Skeptic, July-August 1976.

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• Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

  Simone Weil

  Exercise, Men, Essence

  "The Needs of the Soul (1949)". "The Need for Roots". Book by Simone Weil, p. 97, 1949.

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• I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Hands, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts.

  Christopher Columbus

  Christian, Business, Feet

  "Journal of the First Voyage" by Christopher Columbus, November 27, 1492.

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