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• I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

  Horace Walpole

  Bad Company, Has Beens, Ifs

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4814, Delphi Classics

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• I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Writing, Order

  "Q&A with Erin Morgenstern: Author of The Night Circus". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. August 20, 2012.

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• The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Taken, Animal

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1956). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.431, Prabhat Prakashan

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• For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

  Zoë Heller

  Honesty, People, Departure

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• The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).

  Jason Mulgrew

  Jobs, Book, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.

  Sam Hamill

  Running, Country, Jobs

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Strong, Past, Humanity

  Source: variety.com

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• Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kings, Real, Men

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• The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vanity, Fishing, Evil

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• The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

  Josh Billings

  World, Philosopher, Mystery

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• To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Strong, Law, Two

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• One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Women, Writing

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• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Way, Causes, Sincerity

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• Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Ungrateful, Sour

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• At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dance, Travel, Play

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.159

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• There are some people who think that they should be always mourning, that they should put a continual constraint upon themselves, and feel a disgust for those amusements to which they are obliged to submit. For my own part, I confess that I know not how to conform myself to these rigid notions. I prefer something more simple, which I also think would be more pleasing to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential calculus and felt more keenly than ever before the lack of a really scientific foundation for arithmetic.

  Richard Dedekind

  School, Foundation, Elements

  Richard Dedekind (1901). “Essays on the Theory of Numbers: I. Continuity and Irrational Numbers, II. The Nature and Meaning of Numbers”

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• All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments when our minds ask: 'What next?' In these chinks of time, ask Him: 'Lord, think Thy thoughts in my mind. What is on Thy mind for me to do now?' When we ask Christ, 'What next?' we tune in and give Him a chance to pour His ideas through our enkindled imagination. If we persist, it becomes a habit.

  Frank Laubach

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Waiting, Policy

  State of the Union Address, 2 Dec. 1913

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• If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Office, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.249, Graphic Arts Books

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• I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.

  Roger Federer

  Love, Sports, Blessed

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• Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Air

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• Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.

  Tom Stoppard

  Drama, Writing, Russia

  Source: news.postimees.ee

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• Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Identity, Routine, Want

  Source: bigthink.com

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