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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. ↗

— Catherine the Great

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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. ↗

— Don Herold

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I can't read all the books I want to read, I can't watch all the phenomena that interest me in the world. The work calls me, and sometimes I wonder whether this is an obsession and I should drop it, or it's a necessity I'm obliged to fulfill. ↗

— James Hillman

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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ↗

— James Boswell

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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. ↗

— Christo

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I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. ↗

— George Stephenson

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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Even good people are obliged to deceive. ↗

— Greg LeMond

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I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. ↗

— Annie Lennox

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