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• The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.

  Robert Graves

  War, Order, Long

  Robert Graves, Steven Trout (2008). “Goodbye to all that: and other great war writings”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

  Joan Didion

  Writing, People, Mind

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Views, Self

  "The Sunday Times", May 10, 1992.

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• Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

  Jimmy Carter

  Decision, Death Penalty, Moral

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Government, Political

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• This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

  Herodotus

  Kings, Science, Egypt

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• Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it over the centuries, we often find ourselves surrounded by bossy, hectoring voices trying to short-circuit our personal experience by super-imposing their own disappointments. Much of this bossiness masquerades as an education.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Self

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.59, Penguin

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• Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

  Franz Schubert

  Garden, House, Castles

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• Photographers are always imposing

  Susan Sontag

  Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

  Dan Savage

  Mistake, Men, People

  "Dan Savage Savages the Bible Over Homosexuality" by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

  Henry Paulson

  Thinking, Serious, Problem

  “Meet the Press”, www.nbcnews.com. August 10, 2008.

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• Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom.

  Bill O'Reilly

  President, Coins, Levels

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• Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

  Gertrude Stein

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6135, Delphi Classics

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• All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations. But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Men, Air

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• Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Beautiful, Strong, Hero

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 22, 2011

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• I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, People, Important

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• Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Evil, Needs

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.166

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  Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Freedom, Views

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Jobs, Gay, Thinking

  "These are the exchanges you need to read from today’s Supreme Court arguments". Supreme Court arguments, www.washingtonpost.com. March 26, 2013.

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• Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

  Andy Law

  Creativity, Originality, Defeat

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• While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  War, Exercise, Punishment

  "War and Capital Punishment" by Jimmy Akin, www.catholic.com. March 2, 2005.

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• For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophical, Order, Principles

  Stanislaw Lem (1996). “Highcastle: A Remembrance”, Mariner Books

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• If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Class, Citizens, Taxation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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