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• Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Law, Ideas

  "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Taken, Struggle

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• Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  School, Political, Doctrine

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• It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

  Richard Whately

  Assuming, Overrated, Underrated

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• He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

  Peter L. Berger

  Reality, Definitions, Sticks

  "The Social Construction of Reality". Book by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 1966.

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• The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.

  John Todd

  Psychics, People, Musical

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• The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

  Charles Hard Townes

  Views, Effort, Challenges

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• The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Men, Grieving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.32, Library of Alexandria

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• Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

  John Dewey

  Mediocrity, Uniforms, Originality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.176, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Giving, Stronger

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.94

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• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  United States, Censorship, Dictator

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Heart, Rebel

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Media

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• Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Leader, Self Control, Morality

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.285, Northwestern University Press

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• The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

  Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss (2013). “Treatise on Instrumentation”, p.302, Courier Corporation

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• The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Mean, Light

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• One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.

  Herbert Hainer

  Games, Together, Purpose

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

  Vladimir K. Zworykin

  Trying, Failing, Protect You

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• All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Narrative, Storyteller

  "My Kid Could Paint That". Documentary, Family, Mystery, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Discipline

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces representing constraints of inheritance and development. Vavilov placed too much emphasis on internal constraints and downgraded the power of selection. But Western Darwinians have erred equally in practically ignoring (while acknowledging in theory) the limits placed on selection by structure and development what Vavilov and the older biologists would have called "laws of form.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Theory Of Evolution, Balance

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Organization, People

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Organization, 1968.

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• Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Self, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1973). “Collected Works”

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• I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Children, Writing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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