#obliged

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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I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

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

— Christo

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It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem. ↗

— Mark Roberts

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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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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Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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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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