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It is common to have government agencies trying to impose duties and enforce regulatory functions similar to that of the NCC, there are levies and other charges that are demanded by government institutions which have all the characteristics of a tax.

– Etisalat Nigeria 19.9 million

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We reject sanctions as arbitrary, as immoral and because no one has the right to impose sanctions on anyone else in the world.

– Diosdado Cabello

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Now public figures in Western countries say there is a need to impose sanctions that will destroy the economy and cause public protests.

– Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.

– Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

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9 years ago

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

– June Jordan

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10 years ago

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

– Noam Chomsky

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10 years ago

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

– José Ortega y Gasset

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10 years ago

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

– José Ortega y Gasset

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10 years ago

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.

– Anthon St Maarten

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10 years ago

People don't see the world as it is, rather we impose our beliefs on what we experience.

– William J. Starkey

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12 years ago

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

– Confucius, Analects, XV.24

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13 years ago

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

– Henry Miller

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13 years ago

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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14 years ago

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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