#compels

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God. ↗

— Lactantius

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Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. ↗

— Hal Boyle

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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. ↗

— Pierre Laval

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