#dictated

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. ↗

— Jane Austen

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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

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I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. ↗

— Edward Koch

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Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

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