#compelled

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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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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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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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself. ↗

— John Sexton

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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

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

— E. W. Howe

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You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

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