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«We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.»
«The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success»
«The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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«Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.»
«Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.»
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