#compulsion

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder. ↗

— Robert Atkins

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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ↗

— Karl Marx

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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. ↗

— Themistocles

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. ↗

— Plato

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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. ↗

— Xenophon

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