Quotes with imposed

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• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IX, The Cost of the Reservoir Plan, p

  Benjamin Graham
  British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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• We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

  Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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• 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.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

  George Holbrook Jackson
  British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• insignificance
• uncontrollable
• self-imposed
• one-fourth
• hangovers
• diseased

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