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We have forced everyone to go into marriage because of love. Because you cannot love outside it, so we have unnecessarily forced love and marriage… — Rajneesh
Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this… — Leila Khaled
We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re… — Elizabeth Hay
Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized… — William Wilberforce
You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that. — Anthony Minghella
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious… — Franz Oppenheimer
Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts… — Saint Augustine
We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study. — Paulo Coelho
Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your… — Rajneesh
There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position. — Pal Benko
If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and… — Mike Harding
Sometimes you are forced to defend your beliefs. Sometimes you are forced to look at relationships that aren't positive anymore. There are times when I… — Tori Amos
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the… — William Blake
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add… — Nora Ephron
Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man… — Miguel
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But… — Christine Warren
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of… — Jane Austen
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations,… — Hermann Weyl
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently. — Anatoly Karpov
After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view… — Alexander Kotov
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are… — Laura Hillenbrand
I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it. — Dan Meyer
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle… — Ruby Wax
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the… — Charlotte Bronte

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