#oblige

If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them. ↗

— Benjamin Hawkins

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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#behave #ceremony #feel #normally #obliged

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#each #humanity #itself #live #most

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#devices #engineering #imperfection #iron #machinery

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

#cinderella #down #easily #fitted #foot

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor. ↗

— William Bligh

#anchor #company #following #helen #months

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#am #black #conclusion #destiny #however

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects. ↗

— Howard Carter

#being #crowded #large #made #objects

The powers of Congress are totally inadequate to preserve the balance between the respective States, and oblige them to do those things which are essential for their own welfare or for the general good. ↗

— Henry Knox

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