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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
God
Religion
Sense
Believe
Obliged
Feel
Intellect
Intended
Same
Forgo
Endowed
Us
Use
Reason
Who
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
William Falconer
God
Sense
Believe
Obliged
Feel
Intellect
Intended
Same
Endowed
Us
Use
Reason
Who
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Truth
Truth Is
Possibilities
Obliged
Because
Stick
Than
Fiction
Stranger
I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm obliged to do all I can.
Robert Kennedy
Man
Strong
Country
Feelings
Oppose
Presidency
Run
Must
Strong Feelings
About
Obliged
Propose
Merely
Feel
New
Perilous
Policies
Course
Because
Am
Any
Done
Convinced
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
Judge
Beauty
Nothing
Community
Others
Rather
Obliged
He
True
Between
Himself
Without
Understand
Scorn
Than
Artist
Artists
Cannot
Midway
Tear
Why
Away
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin
Change
Better
Thought
Long
Important
Otherwise
Consideration
Once
Having
Obliged
Opinions
Subjects
Being
Experienced
Information
Which
Fuller
Many
Even
Lived
Found
Right
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker
Time
People
Later
Find
Obliged
Recreation
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Cannot
Who
Illness
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Truth
Possibilities
Obliged
Stick
Fiction
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou
You
Humanity
World
Circumstances
Bad
Must
Citizens
Obliged
Allow
Remind
Like
Global
Disasters
Know
Reduce
Reduced
Human
Anything
Decide
Whether
Which
Us
Your
Inheritance
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
Work
Whatever
Consists
Obliged
Body
Play
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness
Daily
Poverty
Others
Our
More
Obliged
Him
His
Beg
Than
Bread
Who
Daily Bread
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.
Charlie Pierce
Obligation
Water
Sometimes
Lose
Own
Other
Trees
Wild
Our
Sight
Posterity
Obliged
Imperative
Protect
Because
Debt
Truths
Owe
American
Common
Places
Land
Each
Fundamental
Things
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Thomas a Kempis
You
Yourself
Duty
Obliged
Remembering
Your
Who
Activate
Position
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
Kindness
You
Yourself
Will
More
Obliged
He
Another
Ready
Than
Done
Whom
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
Nature
Humanity
Behavior
Nothing
Live
Other
Our
Unaccountable
Unpredictable
Threatening
Obliged
Toward
Most
Itself
Which
Strangest
Each
Phenomena
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
Norman Schwarzkopf
People
Problems
Garbage
Resource
One Of The Problems
Obliged
Throw
Had
Catch
Feel
Renewable
Limit
Fish
Then
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne
Love
Love Is
Ourselves
Obliged
Could
Never
Had
Self-Love
Been
Anything
Loved
To Love
Basis
An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Man
Change
Army
Obey
Men
Every
Rules
Weakens
Collection
One-Man
Obliged
Armed
Principle
Which
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
Adam Ant
Death
Myself
You
Half
Whatever
Every
Else
Interview
Say
Telling
Obliged
Tour
Major
Like
Major Label
Felt
Always
Learnt
Label
Yes
Going
Pace
Worked
Now
Last
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
Albert J. Nock
Life
Mathematics
Knowledge
History
You
Remember
Will
Lost
Gone
Cargo
Only
Obliged
Higher
He
Him
His
Much
Languages
Useful
Useful Knowledge
Useless
Useless Knowledge
Original
Whole
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright
Time
Me
You
Own
Believe
Books
Exactly
Some
Obliged
Writer
Attempt
Days
Know
Read
Am
Still
Up
Ireland
Then
Really
Choice
Your
Doubts
Grow
Grow Up
Once this old lady saw me in airport and just kept smiling at me, and after much hesitation, she came and asked me, 'Are you Ram? Can I touch your hair? Is it real?' and I happily obliged.
Ashish Sharma
Me
You
Old
Hair
Ram
Hesitation
Once
Saw
Airport
Touch
Obliged
She
Smiling
Real
Came
Just
Lady
After
Happily
Old Lady
Asked
Much
Your
Kept
Resolution can be in any form - S4A, SDR or restructuring - but we need an enabling environment where bankers feel comfortable to take decisions and where they also feel obliged to implement decisions in a timely manner.
Chanda Kochhar
Restructuring
Obliged
Take
Environment
Implement
Feel
Also
Comfortable
Enabling
Timely
Any
Bankers
Where
Form
Decisions
Manner
Need
Resolution
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
Charles Perrault
Made
Sit
Down
Cinderella
Wax
Easily
Obliged
Foot
Had
He
Putting
Been
Fitted
Very
Little
Found
Her
To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
Christo
Freedom
We Cannot
Obliged
Absolute
Absolute Freedom
Anyone
Cannot
Keep
Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by the United States. So he felt obliged to fight Americans in the ring. He felt the whole pride of his country and the need for cultural and political emancipation in his hands.
Edgar Ramirez
Time
Fight
Pride
Political
Country
Latin
Latin America
States
Emancipation
Ring
Obliged
Mythological
He
Because
Felt
Occupied
His
Cultural
Up
America
American
Hands
Duran
Grew
Turbulence
Figure
Whole
United
United States
Basically
Need
Panama
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