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«We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.»
Author: Jose Correa
| Keywords:
imposed
«The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.»
«We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
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Dependence,
Power
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break out, cycle, dependence, exert, financially, immense, imposed, that much, vicious, vicious cycle
«Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Buildings, craving, creeds, flexible, imposed, lump, lust after, obstruction, obstructions, weariness
«Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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diseased, fearsome, guise, hangovers, happen upon, imposed, morality, taboo, taboos, vitalize, vitalizes, vitalizing
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