#compels

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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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ↗

— Plato

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It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. ↗

— Plato

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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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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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