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• At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

  Gordon Parks

  Fighting, Abet, Might

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• War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops

  Errol Morris

  War, Fate, Impossible Things

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• When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold—and we do firmly believe and simply confess—that there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins.

  Pope Boniface VIII

  Believe, Apostolic Church, Catholic

  "Unam sanctam". Papal bull by Pope Boniface VIII, 1302.

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• Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Hypocrisy, Atmosphere

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• Loving one another with the charity of Christ, let the love you have in your hearts be shown outwardly in your deeds so that compelled by such an example, the sisters may also grow in the love of God and charity for one another.

  Clare of Assisi

  Christian, Love You, Heart

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• While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Finding Yourself, Steps, Gentle

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• It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth.

  George Mason

  Religious, Father, Justice

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• No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Father, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably int he wrong line of work.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Real, Greatness

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• I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hometown, Particular

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Matter, Obedience

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• It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Important, Looks

  "Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.

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• Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to the singular sparrows of the street, the lilies of the field, "to the least of these my brethren." Love is not, by its own desire, heroic. It is heroic only when compelled to be. It exists by its willingness to be anonymous, humble, and unrewarded.

  Wendell Berry

  Love, Humble, Desire

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• A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Pet

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Agents, Artistic

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• Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Political, Doe

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

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• You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Matter, Letting You Go

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• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

  Tony Bennett

  Moving, Past, Who I Am

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1889, Simon and Schuster

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• From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Blessing, Views

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Names, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.498, Rajpal & Sons

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• True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Luxury, Paper, Able

  "The All New Ashton Kutcher Story!" by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. February 14, 2013.

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• People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

  David Roberts

  People, Pot

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• God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Home, Somewhere Else, Giving

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 59: Sermons 3335-3386”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

  Seth Klarman

  Swings, Feels, Investors

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