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Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. – Isaac Newton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. – Jean-Paul Sartre	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity. – Niccolò Machiavelli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The ideal partnership scenario is one where both parties feel compelled to come back to the table PERIODICALLY to figure out how to take the next step forward & make it successful - this is TRUE for Business, Marriage & even our relationship with GOD ! – Vijay Samuel Benjamin	added by anonymous 11 years ago
There is a word that is so old fashioned -- I feel compelled to dust it off just to use it in this sentence -- RECIPROCITY -- the “soul-coal” that stoked many barn raisings, harvests and roundups. – Chase LeBlanc	added by anonymous 12 years ago
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. – Elbert Hubbard	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites. – Lao-Tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. – Communist Manifesto	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. – Glen Cook, Shadow Games	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end? – Madame de Maintenon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. – Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals. – Vaclav Havel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. – Alvin Toffler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means. – Eugene E. Brussell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. – Charles Robert Darwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man ... should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind. – John Ervine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation. – Thucyclides	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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