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• I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Islamic, Believe, Reality

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• Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Data, Needs, Problem

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• I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.

  Annie Lennox

  Want, Corporations, Albums

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• Mi oído se ha resentido gravemente; ahora mismo me veo obligado a contar con la ayuda de una trompetilla. ¡Piensa en eso, mi belleza! - ¡Ese es el estado en el que debe estar tu viejo amante! - ¡No más susurros tiernos! ¡Imagina dulces confesiones a través de una trompetilla!

  Samuel Lover

  Sweet, Thinking, Hearing

  Samuel Lover, James Jeffrey Roche (1903). “The Collected Writings of Samuel Lover: Rory O'More, a national romance; with a biographical and critical introduction by James Jeffrey Roche”

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• En el intento de derrotar a la muerte, el hombre se ha visto inevitablemente obligado a derrotar a la vida, pues ambas están inextricablemente relacionadas. La vida avanza hacia la muerte, y negar una es negar la otra.

  Henry Miller

  Muerte, Mudanza, Hombres

  Henry Miller (1941). "La sabiduría del corazón", p. 6, New Directions Publishing.

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• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  Mandy Patinkin

  People, Trying, Quality

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• Por mi deseo de completar la independencia de Irak y de terminar la retirada de las fuerzas de ocupación de nuestras tierras santas, me veo obligado a detener las operaciones militares de la honesta resistencia iraquí hasta que se complete la retirada de las fuerzas de ocupación.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Military, Land, Iraq

  "Moqtada al-Sadr ordena detener los ataques contra las tropas estadounidenses destacadas en Irak". www.theguardian.com. 11 de septiembre de 2011.

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• An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every enactment, every change of rule which impairs this principle weakens the army, impairs its value, and defeats the very object of its existence.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Militar, Ejército, Hombres

  "Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius".

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• Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

  Lewis Thomas

  Humanity, Threatening, Behavior

  Lewis Thomas (1990). "A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays".

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• Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

  George Washington

  Imagine, Reason, Said

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

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• The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Mother, Book, Tired

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wish, New Life, Absence

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.180, Macmillan

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• As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

  Susan Cain

  Party, Boys, Long

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• The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

  George Orwell

  Real, Responsibility, Decision

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La naturaleza no te pide permiso, no le importan tus deseos ni si te gustan o no sus leyes. Estás obligado a aceptarla tal como es y, en consecuencia, también todos sus resultados.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ley, Deseo, Cuidado

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Estar obligados a mendigar a otros nuestra felicidad cotidiana revela una pobreza más lamentable que la del que mendiga el pan de cada día.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Poverty, Bread

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.207

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• I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Gentleman, Twists

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.128, GENERAL PRESS

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• We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pain, Years, Boards

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• Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t.

  Daniel Dennett

  Dog, Commitment, Simple

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• A menudo observamos en los abogados, que como Quicquid agunt homines es materia de pleitos, a veces se ven obligados a adquirir un conocimiento temporal de un arte o ciencia, de la que no entendían nada hasta que se entregó su escrito, y parecen ser muy maestros en ella.

  James Boswell

  Arte, Conocimiento, Ciencia

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.309

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• Durante las malas circunstancias, que es la herencia humana, debes decidir no reducirte. Tienes tu humanidad y no debes permitir que nada la reduzca. Estamos obligados a saber que somos ciudadanos del mundo. Las catástrofes nos recuerdan que somos ciudadanos del mundo, nos guste o no.

  Maya Angelou

  Humanity, World, Citizens

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

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• Creo en la vida y en las personas. Me siento obligado a defender sus ideales más elevados mientras crea que son verdaderos. También me veo obligado a rebelarme contra ideales que creo falsos, ya que retroceder ante la rebelión sería una forma de traición

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Creer, Largo, Gente

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.329, Anchor

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• The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Judging, Community

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). "BIBLIOTECA DEL PREMIO NOBEL"

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• ……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.

  Margaret Edson

  Lying, Writing, Littles

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• How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.

  Anna Ajmátova

  Passion, Long, Miracle

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