#impose

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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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

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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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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

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People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows. ↗

— Judd Hirsch

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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business. ↗

— John Hutton

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