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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
• I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry
• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and… — Julie Burchill
• My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous… — John Cleese
• If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory… — Eckhart Tolle
• The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life… — Albert Schweitzer
• Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig von Mises
• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his… — Bernard Iddings Bell

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