#involuntary

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. ↗

— John Thorn

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The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. ↗

— Kate Millett

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An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. ↗

— Iain Sinclair

#disturbing #doubt #involuntary #journeys #most

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#involuntary #laugh #laughter #you

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Wonder is involuntary praise. ↗

— Edward Young

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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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