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Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision. – Paul Davies	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
It is unreasonable... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. – Charles de Montesquieu	added by Normando 1 year ago
It’s not just some rule you pass that everybody has to oblige by. It’s the willingness to shoot down the aircraft of the Russian Federation, which is basically the beginning of World War III. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This [ mandates ] was really a change of paradigm, if you think about vaccine hesitancy and how authorities tried to handle it, at the beginning it was really a lot of pressure on explanations, on communication, and the aim was really not to oblige people but to convince them. And at a certain point, given the very large circulation of the Delta variant in several EU countries, authorities move towards something that is a bit more constraining. – Vittoria Colliza	Found on CNN 2 years ago
No! sometimes I get tired of talking about myself though. ‘The Brady Bunch’ has been an integral part of my life. It’s a show that has been with me now for over 50 years, and I consider the cast members a second family. I know that there is interest and curiosity around the show, and I’m happy to oblige. – Barry Williams	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Since our Israeli enemy is sick with coronavirus, our Arab morals oblige us to make truce with them at this stage. Let's be merciful even with our enemy. – Fayez Abu Shammala	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. – James Madison	added by Normando 5 years ago
Islamic values and the country's constitution oblige all bodies of the Islamic Republic to prevent any discrimination and inequality toward Iranians of any ethnicity, race or religion. – Ali Khamenei	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We cannot oblige people to believe in us. – Radan Kanev	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've had a few client requests here and there, especially for wine bottles, which of course we oblige, but in terms of dishes, it's extremely rare. – Yann Hulin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What exists today is no longer enough and there are countries, and I will not name them here because we have to work with all of them, but who are not responding to their moral obligations, europe is a group of principles, of values which oblige us to welcome those who are pushed out and look for refuge because they are persecuted. – French President Francois Hollande	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The '70s underscored the emergence of this new mode of political expression, this new mode of armed conflict that demonstrated that small groups with a limited capacity for violence could nonetheless achieve these disproportionate effects, they could cause worldwide alarm, they could oblige governments to devote vast resources to security. – Brian Michael Jenkins	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our rules oblige us to stop immediately at the point when there is no prospect of a political accord on a programme, or at the point when the Greek banking system crumbles - which would happen if it enters generalised default on all its debts. – Christian Noyer	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The U.N. and Europe cannot oblige us to sit at the table with terrorists, forming a unity government with leaders of extremist movements, as proposed by mediators would... subvert the results of elections and the will of the vast majority of Libyan citizens. – Omar Humidan of the GNC	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. – Baltasar Gracián y Morales	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves. – La Fontaine	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. – Karl Kraus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. – Alexander Hamilton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

– Paul Davies

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

It is unreasonable... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

– Charles de Montesquieu

added by Normando
1 year ago

It’s not just some rule you pass that everybody has to oblige by. It’s the willingness to shoot down the aircraft of the Russian Federation, which is basically the beginning of World War III.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This [ mandates ] was really a change of paradigm, if you think about vaccine hesitancy and how authorities tried to handle it, at the beginning it was really a lot of pressure on explanations, on communication, and the aim was really not to oblige people but to convince them. And at a certain point, given the very large circulation of the Delta variant in several EU countries, authorities move towards something that is a bit more constraining.

– Vittoria Colliza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No! sometimes I get tired of talking about myself though. ‘The Brady Bunch’ has been an integral part of my life. It’s a show that has been with me now for over 50 years, and I consider the cast members a second family. I know that there is interest and curiosity around the show, and I’m happy to oblige.

– Barry Williams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Since our Israeli enemy is sick with coronavirus, our Arab morals oblige us to make truce with them at this stage. Let's be merciful even with our enemy.

– Fayez Abu Shammala

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

– James Madison

added by Normando
5 years ago

Islamic values and the country's constitution oblige all bodies of the Islamic Republic to prevent any discrimination and inequality toward Iranians of any ethnicity, race or religion.

– Ali Khamenei

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We cannot oblige people to believe in us.

– Radan Kanev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We've had a few client requests here and there, especially for wine bottles, which of course we oblige, but in terms of dishes, it's extremely rare.

– Yann Hulin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What exists today is no longer enough and there are countries, and I will not name them here because we have to work with all of them, but who are not responding to their moral obligations, europe is a group of principles, of values which oblige us to welcome those who are pushed out and look for refuge because they are persecuted.

– French President Francois Hollande

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The '70s underscored the emergence of this new mode of political expression, this new mode of armed conflict that demonstrated that small groups with a limited capacity for violence could nonetheless achieve these disproportionate effects, they could cause worldwide alarm, they could oblige governments to devote vast resources to security.

– Brian Michael Jenkins

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our rules oblige us to stop immediately at the point when there is no prospect of a political accord on a programme, or at the point when the Greek banking system crumbles - which would happen if it enters generalised default on all its debts.

– Christian Noyer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The U.N. and Europe cannot oblige us to sit at the table with terrorists, forming a unity government with leaders of extremist movements, as proposed by mediators would... subvert the results of elections and the will of the vast majority of Libyan citizens.

– Omar Humidan of the GNC

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

– Baltasar Gracián y Morales

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves.

– La Fontaine

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

– Karl Kraus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

– Alexander Hamilton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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