#imposes

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. ↗

— Mark Strand

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man. ↗

— John Dryden

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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

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