"It is necessity and not pleasure that compels…" — Dante Alighieri

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• Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. — Alain Badiou
• So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or… — Laurence Sterne
• Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life. — William Feather
• Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant
• Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live… — Immanuel Kant
• By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in… — Henry David Thoreau
• Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence — George Holyoake
• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. — Hal Boyle
• Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In… — C. D. Darlington
• When was the last fast time you thanked the Lord for a trial or tribulation? Adversity compels us to go… — Bonnie D. Parkin
• Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. — Camille Paglia

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