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The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

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In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

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Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed. ↗

— William Friedkin

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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

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I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life. ↗

— Cherrie Moraga

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