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Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.
Gary Zukav
Pattern
Reality
Point
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. Eliot
Offer
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
Henri Nouwen
Jesus
Countries
Imposed
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Max Weber
Chance
Context
Even
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No pastor has the church’s blessing to impose Yoruba songs as part of the church service in other parts of the country.
Enoch Adeboye
Impose
Service
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Parts
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent van Gogh
Disregard
Duty
Faith
Opinion
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Abbie Hoffman
Impose
Language
Never
People
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No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
Ernest Hemingway
Cannot
Ever
Guarantee
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Because they can’t attack our record, they accuse me falsely of ethnic jingoes; they accuse me falsely of religious fundamentalism. Because they cannot attack our record, they accuse us falsely of calling for election violence – when we have only insisted on peace. Even as Head of State, we never imposed Sharia.
Muhammadu Buhari
Attack
Record
Accuse
Ethnic
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
Octavio Paz
After
Because
Fact
Hundred
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky
State
People
Moral
Institutions
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam Chomsky
Resistance
Detest
Reality
Hegemony
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini
Alone
Brings
Courage
Energies
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
Pope Francis
Competitiveness
Consequence
Consumer
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I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
Cate Blanchett
Between
Champagne
Competition
Deserve
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky
Constraint
Constraints
Execution
More
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The only difference between South Africa and Nigeria is that those who imposed minority rule on the majority rule whether it is by black or white remains minority rule, and must be booted out
MKO Abiola
South Africa
Nigeria
Minority
Majority
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...
Henri Matisse
Work
Art
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul
Act
Bureaucrats
Definition
Engineering
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James Monroe
Character
Free
Free People
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I think that the trouble we now face in the world is caused mainly by the refusal to try and see another man’s point of view, to try and persuade by example - and the refusal to meet a rather passionate desire to impose your own will upon others, either by force or other means
Seretse Khama
Truoble
I think
World
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Corruption imposes heavy costs on the economy and distorts development policies. It hurts the poor disproportionately by diverting funds intended for development. It undermines government’s ability to provide essential services. It fuels inequality and injustice and discourages foreign investment
Quett Ketumile Masire
Corruption
Economy
Heavy cost
Foreign investment
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
We live
A society
Imposed forgetfulness
That depends
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I think especially as women we need to recognize that feeling pressure is completely self-imposed.
Arianna Huffington
Think
Women
Recognize
Feeling
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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
Simone de Beauvoir
Weakness
Aims
Man
Laws
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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
Stephen Jay Gould
A minimum
Evolutionary pathways
Through time
Constraints imposed
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
Few tragedies
More extensive
Life
Few injustices
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All limitations are self-imposed.
Ernest Holmes
All
Limitations
Self-imposed
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Guy de Maupassant
Artist
Impose
Vision
Humanity
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A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.
Jean Vanier
Christian
Community
Jesus
Love
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True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.
Jean Vanier
Peace
Imposed
Born
Dialogue
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos
John Forbes Nash Jr.
Rationality
Thought
Limit
Person's
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Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.
Jon Stewart
Religions
War
Human life
People
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..a miracle has the right to impose conditions.
Jorge Luis Borges
Miracle
Right
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Conditons
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My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
Justin Trudeau
Freedom
The rights
Fight
Hard
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