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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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