Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another."
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Obliged
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Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you."
Andre Gide
Novelist
"The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it."
James Cash Penney
Businessman
"It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most."
Meryl Streep
Actress, Producer
"If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it."
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"In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work."
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"The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark."
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"I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether."
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"Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?"
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