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• God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heaven, Hell, Reverence

  Beyers Naudé memorial lecture, August 15, 2003.

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• All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Men, Law, Land

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• "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

  Thomas Aquinas

  Usury, Doing Nothing, Becoming

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• If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.

  B. B. Warfield

  Inspiration, Discovery, Criticism

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• Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.

  Robert E. Lee

  Courage, Army, Yield

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• Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

  Isaac Newton

  Change, Impact, Uniforms

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• Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Quality

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• The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

  Frank O'Connor

  Art, Light, Stories

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• Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

  Immanuel Kant

  Adoption, Humanity, Principles

  "Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, Part Two : Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, 1797.

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• Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Writing, Choices, Complacency

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• What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

  Grant Allen

  Education, Boys, Should

  Grant Allen (1894). “Post-prandial Philosophy”

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• The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  War, Responsibility, Technology

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• I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Trying

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.26, Anchor

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• You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

  Robert Schumann

  Play, Should, Composition

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.14

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• I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

  Helen Prejean

  Prayer, Suffering, World

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• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

  M. Scott Peck

  Strange, Should, Feels

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• If we remain compelled by comfort, we will miss the greatest adventures of our calling.

  Beth Moore

  Adventure, Missing, Comfort

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• We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Heart, Animal

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• My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful is by giving them enough unique ways to do things. First, let them deal with pulling levers and things like that for a while. Then after they've mastered that, you give them something else to do, like getting through doorways by blasting them down with a cannon Next, you give them a monster-finding quest, followed by logic problems to figure out. You pace it that way. Assorted activities and the diversity of activities are what makes a game rich in my mind.

  Richard Garriott

  Philosophy, Successful, Unique

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• Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.

  Pat Condell

  Should, Ideology

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• Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Men, Sea, Different

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• People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; but they have taken current suggestions in a dreamy and hypnotised way. They will not attend, they will not force themselves to attend, gravely to the gravest things.... they read everything in a vagrant, browsing fashion. They turn on the most serious subjects the holiday, seaside, newspaper habit of mind

  Peter Forsyth

  Religious, Fashion, Taken

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• It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Book, Heartfelt, Merit

  "Chat queen Oprah shelves her TV book club" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2002.

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• Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.

  Linda Stone

  Technology, Giving, Use

  "Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List?" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2008.

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