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When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. ↗


— Stephen J. Field


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The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗


— James Buchan


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We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. ↗


— Howard Carter


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During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village. ↗


— George Crook


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When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. ↗


— Wilhelm Steinitz


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If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. ↗


— Caroline Nichols Churchill


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I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them. ↗


— Emmanuelle Beart


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It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision. ↗


— Len Wein


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As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down. ↗


— Marilyn Hacker


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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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