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• when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?

  Hannah More

  Thinking, Talking, Listening

  Hannah More (1841). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.373

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• In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

  Miles Franklin

  Children, Clever, Careers

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

  Donna Tartt

  People, Trouble, Feels

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• I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichés.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Black, Peculiar

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• It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Struggle, Character, Ideas

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• Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Light, Principles, Belief

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• I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Writing, Want, Doe

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• His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Fashion, Attention, Losing

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Fashion, Men

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• If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

  William Penn

  Men, Evil, Weakness

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

  Plato

  Character, Men, Evil

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself. Self-honesty is looking at things as they are and then being compelled to make changes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Honesty, Sorry, Self

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• One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Strong, Men, Evil

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• The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord.... Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Spiritual, Son, Law

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• There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Men, Atheism, Inspired

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1962). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.

  David Plotz

  Book, School, Thinking

  "Slate: David Plotz Discusses 'Good Book' and What He Learned Blogging the Bible". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2009.

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• In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Men, Intelligent, Two

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• Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.

  Paddy Considine

  People, Trying, Acting

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• We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth.
  [Lat., Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium
  Versatur urna serius, ocius
  Sors exitura.]

  Horace

  Death, Sooner Or Later

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• Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Writing, Byron

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• Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I can go days without talking to another human being unless it's my mother, especially when I'm not teaching or on break.

  Roxane Gay

  Mother, Loneliness, Teaching

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, History, Oracles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.104, Penguin

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• I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.

  Keri Hilson

  Believe, Voice, Feels

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• So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

  Frances Wright

  Teacher, Religious, Book

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• The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cousin, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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