#oblige

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#control #difficulty #enable #first #framing

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#american citizens #citizens #happiness #involve #moods

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#fill #interpreter #lesser #many #obliged

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#most #obliged #people #service #value

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem. ↗

— Mark Roberts

#clubs #feel #gets #i #i feel

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#obliged #possibilities #stick #truth