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• Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Spiritual, Believe, Doors

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1986). “Prayer”, p.266, Ignatius Press

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• I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Decision, Tough, Tomorrow

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• One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

  Annalena McAfee

  Book, Leaving, Lists

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• When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Law, Judging, Court

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 430-34, 1922.

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• Even the Savior of the world, the Only Begotten Son of God, was obliged to come to earth and to take upon himself an earthly tabernacle. He experienced joy and sorrow, happiness and grief, lasting satisfaction and frequent disappointments. As Paul has written, "Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him."

  Alma P Burton

  Happiness, Disappointment, Grief

  Alma P. Burton, Clea M. Burton (1966). “For They Shall Be Comforted”, p.30, Cedar Fort

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• The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Speak

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.282

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• Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.

  John Dryden

  Rocks, Sculpture, Natural

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• ... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge And Power, Order, Law

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• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  Victoria Wood

  People, Special, Treats

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• I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

  John Shelton Reed

  Believe, Ignorance, Rights

  "Term 'states' rights' heard anew in election cycle" by Allen G. Breed, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

  Anthony Collins

  Believe, Men, Belief

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• 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

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

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• And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, World, Might

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• As a philosopher, I'm not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Philosopher, Wilderness

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

  Charles Lamb

  Despair, Trying, Scottish

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.221, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Together, Looks, Syntax

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• We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Firsts, Biology, Form

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• The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.91

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• If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Jesus, Gentleman

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• If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Men, Order

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Idols, Arses, Thrones

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• In a word, we are like the servants of the centurion in the Gospel with regard to the bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Bishops, Servant

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• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, Imitation, Resolve

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.158

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• Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in strategies and full of tricks, I was obliged to call up all my forces to lay hold of him, and make the subtle Being my prisoner.

  Christian Friedrich Schonbein

  Strong, Hero, Science

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