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Quotes About Voluntarily

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
~ Cory Doctorow
Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed. In
~ Timothy Snyder
The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau speculated that states are formed by a social contract, a rational decision reached when people calculated their self-interest, came to the agreement that they would be better off in a state than in simpler societies, and voluntarily did away with their simpler societies. But
~ Jared Diamond
Of all the Winter Service Industries, the Winter Consul was the most dangerous. Few who joined expected to last out the decade, yet recruitment was never much of a problem. You didn't find the job, they said, it found you. No-one ever who entered the Winter voluntarily wasn't trying to leave something behind.
~ Jasper Fforde
This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29
~ Darren Shan
The covenant of redemption may be defined as the agreement between the Father, giving the Son as Head and Redeemer of the elect, and the Son, voluntarily taking the place of those whom the Father had given Him.
~ Louis Berkhof
The covenant of redemption may be defined as the agreement between the Father, giving the Son as Head and Redeemer of the elect, and the Son, voluntarily taking the place of those whom the Father had given Him.
~ Louis Berkhof
You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.
~ Napoleon Hill
Amena and Ratthi kept suggesting that I should help it "adjust" whatever that is. I knew if I was in its position, I'd want to be left alone. And if it hadn't even sat down in a chair voluntarily yet, it probably wasn't ready to talk. (I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)
~ Martha Wells
In effect, he ruled that no writedowns are legal. No government's debt can be written down if any holder disagrees, regardless of how voluntarily they may be negotiated or how reasonable they may be.
~ Michael Hudson
Trump—almost never voluntarily alone, and absolutely never alone and awake without the television on—retreated into his bedroom cabin in silence.
~ Michael Wolff
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
~ Peter King