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• We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

  Elif Safak

  Heart, Unique, Differences

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, 2011.

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• A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Race, Order

  Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.772, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

  Esther Dyson

  Real, Responsibility, Challenges

  "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Foundation, Titles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

  Lance Morrow

  Risk, Church

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• I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, People, Confusion

  "Individual and Society". Audio lecture,

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• Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.

  Max Stirner

  Education, Powerful, Men

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Regimes, Difficult

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.419, Wordsworth Editions

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• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

  Damian Lewis

  Independent, Class, Ideas

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• The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mistake, Taken

  Article by John Richardson, December 01, 1957.

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• But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Government, People

  "National Post" Newspaper, March 6, 2004.

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• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

  John Aubrey

  Lying, Men, People

  Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813). “Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq: The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations ...”, p.202

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• People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

  Theresa May

  Mps, People, Regulation

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

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• Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

  Joe Klein

  Party, Men, Years

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• A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Law, Freedom Of Speech, Criminals

  "Excerpts From Opinions in Ruling on the Child Pornography Prevention Act". www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2002.

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• You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Powerful, Thinking

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

  Aga Khan III

  Father, Views, Personality

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• When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Christian, Long, Crosses

  "Robertson and Giuliani: The Torture Link". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. November 07, 2007.

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• Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Discipline, Boards

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Vegetarianism, Choices, Made

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  Kurt Huber

  Punishment, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Crush

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• ...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.

  Alan Watts

  Technology, Civilization, Goal

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