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«The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.»
«There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything. When actions are judged, they go before the bar of God, where Mom and the Flag closely flank His presence.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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adequate, American flag, closely, compulsion, expediency, flank, flanks, mom, on the side, presence of God, The Angels, the bar
«Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.»
«We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
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bury, capsule, capsules, compulsion, order of the day, or so, These Days, time capsule
«We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully»
Author: Martin Buber
(Interpreter, Philosopher, Translator)
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cautious, compulsion, contradiction, diction, powerfully
«Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?»
«The Divine Will, operating through the force of love, does all this. For example, though there are thousands gathered here, absolute silence prevails. Under what compulsion? Only the compulsion of love. In other places, where a hundred people collect, a hundred and fifty constables are present to keep them quiet.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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collect, compulsion, constable, constables, keep quiet, operating, other places, prevails
«We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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compulsion, compulsions, disasters, guilty, heavenly, villains
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