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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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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

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Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. ↗

— Avery Brooks

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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it. ↗

— Macklemore

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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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

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