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• It's Russell Montgomery the Third, actually," said Rusty, still grinning. "But I'd be obliged if you keep that bit of information to yourself." "I don't imagine any of us cares enough to remember," Jared said.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Care, Information, Remember

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Bears, Instruments

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.481, Springer

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• I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be obliged to go to a house at a certain hour, or to have to wait at home for a pupil, is what I cannot do, no matter how much money it may bring me in. . . I am a composer and was born to be a Kapellmeister. I neither can nor ought to bury the talent for composition with which God in his goodness has so richly endowed me. . .

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Home, Giving, House

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• I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

  Robert Boyle

  Thinking, Events, May

  Robert Boyle (1835). “Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God...”, p.97

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• We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

  Emma Goldman

  Doors, Citizens, Rooms

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.583, Univ of California Press

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• The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Men, Two

  "Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta".

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• We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the many laws, which have been obliged to be passed to protect them from their nearest male relatives, are a sufficient answer...They are evidently the production of men legislating for their own most obvious interest...without the slightest reference to the injustice they were committing against women.

  Marion Kirkland Reid

  Men, Law, Words Of Wisdom

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• What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Men, Editors, Want

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

  Edouard Manet

  Country, Charm

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• I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, War, Civil War

  Abraham Lincoln (1944). “Selected writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.310, Рипол Классик

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• I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.

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• In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is in that light that the authorities have both a right and an obligation to supervise and regulate derivative instruments.

  George Soros

  Integrity, Light, Investing

  George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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• I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

  Karl Kraus

  Long, Burning, Looks

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• It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

  James Cash Penney

  People, Giving, Values

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• Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

  Isabel Paterson

  Justify

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• Let Christians all understand that conscience is between themselves and God alone. They are not at liberty to impose even their freedom of conscience upon another; but by the laws of the kingdom of Christ, they are obliged even to refrain at times from exercising their own freedom, out of consideration for others.

  Ellet J. Waggoner

  Christian, Exercise, Law

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• We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

  Seraphim Rose

  Jesus, World, Kingdoms

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• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  Taiye Selasi

  World, Release

  "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

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• For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants

  Jacques Anquetil

  Race, Years, Effort

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• No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

  Philippe Starck

  Genius

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• A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Advice

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• We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.

  Luke the Evangelist

  Catholic, Done, Servant

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• We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Clever, Crazy, Work

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 97, 1799.

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• The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Home, Wish, United States

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• I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. I can't imagine what would happen to literature today if one were obliged to congregate in an unpleasant hall and read novels projected on a screen.

  Milton Babbitt

  Believe, Home, People

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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