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«Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
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«Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?»
Author: Karen Horney
(Psychoanalyst)
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«Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.»
«I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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«He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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«DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. --G.J.»
«ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten.When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. --Oliver Cromwell»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Language,
War
| Keywords:
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«It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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«The divine shall mean for us only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to respond to solemnly and gravely, and neither by a curse nor a jest.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
gravely, impelled, impels, jest, primal, solemnly
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