#obeys

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. ↗

— Paul de Man

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. ↗

— James Thomson

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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. ↗

— Voltaire

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