#compelled

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. ↗

— Fred Allen

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That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. ↗

— William Feather

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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country. ↗

— George William Norris

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At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it. ↗

— Gordon Parks

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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it. ↗

— Macklemore

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It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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