#oblige

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing. ↗

— James Bovard

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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. ↗

— Christo

#absolute freedom #anyone #cannot #freedom #keep

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me. ↗

— Barbara Steele

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He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. ↗

— Charles Perrault

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It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest. ↗

— Robert Purvis

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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

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The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them. ↗

— John Sutter

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

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