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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead

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

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
Pierre Laval

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
Maureen O'Hara

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

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

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

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

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'
Johann Most

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

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

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

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

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

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

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
Bob Taft

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