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A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed. ↗

— Chris Hughes

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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. ↗

— Avery Brooks

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