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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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• Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus’ love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.

  F. F. Bruce

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself, you can't tell the difference. Once you gain a modicum of self-knowledge, you can express your passion.....It's not about jumping through someone else's hoops. That's drive.

  Randy Komisar

  Passion, Differences, Jumping

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.83, Harvard Business Press

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• If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

  Emma Watson

  Men, Order, Submissive

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.

  Benito Mussolini

  Italian, Government, Order

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• Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.

  Laozi

  Peace, War, Men

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• When we stopped to rest and Tony tried to figure out what was wrong with his compass, I asked him what he thought it was about orchids that seduced humans so completely that they were compelled to steal them and worship them and try to breed new and specific kinds of them and then be willing to wait for nearly a decade for one of them to flower.

  Susan Orlean

  Flower, Orchids, Waiting

  Susan Orlean (2000). “The Orchid Thief”, Ballantine Books

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• Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Motivational, Expression, Suffering

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• Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

  David Dark

  People, Records, May

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• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Long, Serious

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.441, Delphi Classics

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• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  Adam Hamilton

  Evil, Feelings, Use

  "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, Tools, Faces

  "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, "Conversations in Port Townsend," (1983), 1987.

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• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Solitude, Heat

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.1437, e-artnow

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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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