Sparky Anderson

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

American Coach

Janet Jackson

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

American Musician

David Hume

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Scottish Philosopher

Paul de Man

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Belgian Critic

Marcel Proust

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

French Author

Gustav Mahler

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Austrian Composer

Joseph Roux

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

French Clergyman

Ferdinand Buisson

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

French Activist

James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

American Clergyman

John Bigelow

And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

American Lawyer

Often used regarding laws or authority figures, implying a formal obligation.

Legal context

The word can imply a command, often coming from a place of power or hierarchy.

Imperative tone

Used to express social or family expectations, not just orders.

Expectation nuance

Sometimes implies unwritten rules or norms that people are expected to follow.

Societal norms

In computing, 'obey' suggests accuracy and lack of choice in the response to commands.

Technical precision

Emphasizes the role of a user or programmer in directing machine actions.

User interaction

Highlights the idea of universal rules that govern natural behavior.

Natural order

In science, 'obey' can teach about consistent, predictable patterns.

Science education

 to blindly obey authority, to go all the way to 450 volts. And it's like a dial on human nature. A dial in a sense that you can make almost everybody totally obedient, down to the majority, down to none. What are the external parallels? For all research is artificial. What's the validity in the real world?

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 We can think of them as part of our universe. They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me. However, recent theories in physics, including one called string theory,

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 for information to pass from one particle to the other indicating which way to spin to obey the rules of entanglement. It's not surprising then that entanglement is at the core of quantum information science, a growing field studying how to use the laws of the strange quantum world

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 His vision, uncluttered by speculation or rationalization, went deep. Steno had seen how gallstones form in wet organs by accretion. They obeyed molding principles he knew from the goldsmith trade, rules useful across disciplines for understanding solids

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 with different properties, obeying different laws. Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond, but nonetheless, combined they make up a vast multiverse of possible universes.

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 In movies, when something goes wrong with AI, it's usually because the AI has decided that it doesn't want to obey the humans anymore, and it's got its own goals, thank you very much. In real life, though, the AI that we actually have

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 in the back of your conscience, you're saying, am I going to do this, really? Am I going to take this guy's life? And the other side of me is saying, you promised. You don't obey this order, somebody I trust is going to kill me, too.

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 And he made this claim based on the fact that the first humans described in these books behaved consistently, in different traditions and in different places of the world, as if they were hearing and obeying voices

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 in a good place you go into this kingdom of heaven forever but if you assemble along the way you might not get there immediately but you'll get there eventually and if any if you don't obey

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 and making an evidence-based argument to prove it. These students, however, were simply told what to think, and they obeyed. In their world, critical thinking was not allowed.

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