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We have to go further and explore new avenues, a structure will be created by the end of the year to take charge, on a voluntary basis, of young people returning from conflict zones who are not, of course, being prosecuted. – Prime Minister Manuel Valls	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Some time ago I was asked to attend an interview with officers from Operation Golding when I was next in the UK, this was further to a previous voluntary interview I provided in December 2013. – Piers Morgan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are convinced that at this stage, there's no more need of such an embargo, Russia's separate voluntary embargo. – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov	Found on CNN 9 years ago
One thing that is clear is that he has a large amount of bruising on his body that I noticed that I'm very concerned about. It appears that whatever statements he made, he was without the advice of counsel, and when I look at the bruising, it's hard for me assess if these were voluntary statements that he made. he said he was bruised by the police when he was taken into custody. And he was in a lot of pain when he was being questioned. – Jerryl Christmas	Found on CNN 9 years ago
They will hear about Hernandez's mental illness, but they won't actually see it in the courtroom, they will see the confession. It will sound voluntary and compelling and they won't have another mechanism to see how that might have happened except for his guilt. – Saul Kassin	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
He also believes many vaccines should be voluntary and like most medical decisions, between the doctor and the patient, not the government. – Sergio Gor	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It may very well be that the ask for some of these members may be difficult and voluntary redundancy may have to be considered. – Larry Broderick	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Introducing new unilateral sanctions against the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sebastopol by the USA and European Union is direct evidence that the West has acknowledged that the decision by the Crimeans to rejoin Russia was unanimous and voluntary, that's why they chose the 'punishment' to be collective. – The Russian Foreign Ministry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Introducing new unilateral sanctions against the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sebastopol by the USA and European Union is a direct evidence that the West has acknowledged that the decision by the Crimeans to rejoin Russia was unanimous and voluntary, that's why they chose the 'punishment' to be collective. – The Russian Foreign Ministry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Even though the sustain rate is lower, the effectiveness rate has stayed the same, which means that agencies are taking voluntary corrective action in response to protests at an even higher level. – Ralph White	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will. – Alexander Herzen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Making music is voluntary. Unlike bread, we don’t require it for our sustenance. Accordingly, music shouldn’t require its pound of flesh from the would-be listener. The price of art should be set by the market, by the listener, not by a machine with political interests. – Tom Fahy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – Walter Bagehot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My voluntary confinement here is restricted less by time than by my earthly existence. In essence I am dead -- dead for my children -- dead for my work ... I am dead but not yet buried, or buried alive -- whichever, the consequences are nearly identical ... – Eugene Botkin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. – Niccolò Machiavelli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels! – Theodor Herzl	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. – Samuel Johnson, Rasselas	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. – Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We have to go further and explore new avenues, a structure will be created by the end of the year to take charge, on a voluntary basis, of young people returning from conflict zones who are not, of course, being prosecuted.

– Prime Minister Manuel Valls

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some time ago I was asked to attend an interview with officers from Operation Golding when I was next in the UK, this was further to a previous voluntary interview I provided in December 2013.

– Piers Morgan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are convinced that at this stage, there's no more need of such an embargo, Russia's separate voluntary embargo.

– Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One thing that is clear is that he has a large amount of bruising on his body that I noticed that I'm very concerned about. It appears that whatever statements he made, he was without the advice of counsel, and when I look at the bruising, it's hard for me assess if these were voluntary statements that he made. he said he was bruised by the police when he was taken into custody. And he was in a lot of pain when he was being questioned.

– Jerryl Christmas

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They will hear about Hernandez's mental illness, but they won't actually see it in the courtroom, they will see the confession. It will sound voluntary and compelling and they won't have another mechanism to see how that might have happened except for his guilt.

– Saul Kassin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

He also believes many vaccines should be voluntary and like most medical decisions, between the doctor and the patient, not the government.

– Sergio Gor

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It may very well be that the ask for some of these members may be difficult and voluntary redundancy may have to be considered.

– Larry Broderick

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Introducing new unilateral sanctions against the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sebastopol by the USA and European Union is direct evidence that the West has acknowledged that the decision by the Crimeans to rejoin Russia was unanimous and voluntary, that's why they chose the 'punishment' to be collective.

– The Russian Foreign Ministry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Introducing new unilateral sanctions against the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sebastopol by the USA and European Union is a direct evidence that the West has acknowledged that the decision by the Crimeans to rejoin Russia was unanimous and voluntary, that's why they chose the 'punishment' to be collective.

– The Russian Foreign Ministry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Even though the sustain rate is lower, the effectiveness rate has stayed the same, which means that agencies are taking voluntary corrective action in response to protests at an even higher level.

– Ralph White

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

– Alexander Herzen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Making music is voluntary. Unlike bread, we don’t require it for our sustenance. Accordingly, music shouldn’t require its pound of flesh from the would-be listener. The price of art should be set by the market, by the listener, not by a machine with political interests.

– Tom Fahy