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«Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. 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.»
«In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.»
«In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable»
«Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.»
«Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.»
Author: Confucius | Keywords: desire, impose
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
«Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery»
«A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.»
«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.»
«If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.»

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