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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

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I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. ↗

— Esther Dyson

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I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

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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

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Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country. ↗

— Emile Lahud

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I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. ↗

— Will Oldham

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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action. ↗

— Rand Paul

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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

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