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«This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in caste system, some persons are forced to carry on the prescribed callings which are not their choice.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
carry on, caste, castes, caste system, legal, legal system, obtains, prescribed, prescribes
«The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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Limits
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endurance, limits, oppose, prescribed, prescribes, tyrants
«Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
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frequency, gracious, medicines, physician, prescribes, prescription, prescriptions, proportions, Trials
«The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Leadership
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heap, lets, prescribe, prescribes, scrap, scraps, the Wrecks, tow, towed, wreck, wrecking
«When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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assured, bum, bummed, bums, described, eight, fever, fifty-eight, incurable, incurables, in other words, itch, itched, itches, itching, mature, maturity, middle age, prescribed, prescribes, remedy, senility, someplace, The Job, The Urge, urge, worked
«Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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articulate, esteemed, mouthful, mouthfuls, prescribes, sum of money
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