#imposed

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian. ↗

— Robert Towne

#attracted #been #being #culture #ethnic

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. ↗

— Robert Welch

#fortune #good #good fortune #imposed #indeed

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#afghanistan #country #dictatorship #having #impose

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#another #because #beyond #control #different

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#exact #exact measure #find #imposed #injustice

Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#carried #chambers #counting #ionization #out

What he'd do, he'd never go out to the length of the chain. He'd never even get out to where the chain got tight. Even if the mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. Nothing outside of that area right there interested him. He just had zero interest. So he never noticed the chain. He didn't hate it. The chain. He just up and made it not relevant. maybe he wasn't pretending--maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All of his life on that chain. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#imposed-boundaries #limitations #life

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#chance #disaster #each #layers #left

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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