Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
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In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
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Oxigen [oxygen], as you well know, is my hero as well as my foe, and being not only strong but inexhaustible in… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
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