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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

Dog, May, Littles

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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

E. W. Howe

Common Sense, Literature, Enthusiasm

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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

Daisaku Ikeda

Real, Way, Citizens

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For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

Meir Kahane

Long, Choices, Effort

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I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

Moby

Art, Hands, Comfort

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I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Alanis Morissette

Level Playing Field, Levels, Might

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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Tennessee Williams

Failure, Night, Typewriters

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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.

Jennifer Donnelly

Grief, Writing, Would Be

Jennifer Donnelly (2007). “The Tea Rose: A Novel”, p.561, Macmillan

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories

Anne Rice

Fashion, Water, Soul

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

Mark Twain

Sweet, Years, Mind

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When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

Charles Eisenstein

Survival, Scarcity, Slavery

Charles Eisenstein (2011). “Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition”, p.30, North Atlantic Books

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I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

Vincent Van Gogh

Memories, Thinking, Glasses

Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

Hayao Miyazaki

Mean, Thinking, Self

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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

Eve Ensler

Fighting, Compassion, Mad

Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fitness, Relaxation, Human Nature

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The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Albert Einstein

Leadership, Born Leaders, Able

Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

James Patterson

Voice, Littles, Made

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The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Napoleon Hill

Motivational, Strength, Success

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Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

Jack London

Fire, Earth, Forests

Jack London, Gene Engene, Books in Motion (2007). “Call of the Wild”, p.132

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But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character. "And if you continue in this vein, I'm afraid we'll be compelled to cut our visit short. Surely there are other establishments that would host an entire troup of guests - indefinitely and without reward - and not feel obliged to apologize for it!

Trenton Lee Stewart

Character, Cutting, Guests

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I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Cameron Dokey

Action, Goodness, Force

Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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Um…” Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the worldʼs best database of international criminals.” “Thatʼs the idea ” Gabrielle said with a nod. “And I feel compelled to remind you that weʼre international criminals ” he finished but Kat was already smiling. “Donʼt worry Simon. Itʼs not like anyone in there knows it was a bunch of teenagers who robbed the Henley.

Ally Carter

Teenager, Ideas, Worry

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Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

Ha-Joon Chang

Country, Holiday, Mean

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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

Naguib Mahfouz

Believe, Long, People

Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.329, Anchor

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One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

P. G. Wodehouse

Life Is, Telling The Truth, Moments

P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Hot Water”, p.248, Random House

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