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  • Littleman, littleman! The word 'must' isnotto be usedto princes!

    -Elizabeth I
       To Robert Cecil when, during her last illness, he told her that she must go to bed. Quoted in Christopher Haigh Elizabeth I (1988), p.24.

  •    Alle anderen Dinge mu«  ssen; der Mensch ist das Wesen, welches will. All other things must; man is the being who wills.

    - Friedrich Schiller
    « 1794  Uber das Erhabene.

  • Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

    - George P(ratt) Shultz
      On Soviet alarm at the prospect of US science'turned on' and venturing into the realm of space defence. Turmoil and Triumph.

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