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I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

~Alan Alda

Topics: About Compulsion Condemned Daily Everyday Fever Grade Improving Including Inner Life Low Many My Life Myself Rituals Some Tasks Think Ways

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There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.

~Alan Taylor

Topics: Actually After Away Chase Compulsion Fast Freedom Get Hand Human Natural Over Possible Then

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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Able Anything Assist Compulsion Ethical He Help Injuring Life Lives Man Only Shrinks Truly Which

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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

~Aleksa Palladino

Topics: Acting Compulsion Connect Different Me More Out Place Review Same Similar Something Than Writing

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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.

~Alfred Hitchcock

Topics: Bury Century Compulsion Days Give Idea Like Living Next Order People Seem Some Those Time

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Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

~Amanda Hocking

Topics: Always Ask Compulsion Even Felt Go Hang High High School Home Instead Like Me Out People School Sit Times Wanted Would Write Writing

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It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Automatically Backwards Because Compulsion Crisis Future Going Got Idea In The Past Just Just Because Lies Look Mean Muddle Must Never No Idea Notion Past Resemble Security Somehow Through Time Ahead

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

~Aristotle

Topics: Actions Causes Chance Compulsion Desire Habit Human Human Actions More Nature Passion Reason Seven

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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

~Auberon Herbert

Topics: Act Any Being Compulsion Done Element Free How Intelligent Moral Seeing

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I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

~Bennett Miller

Topics: Compulsion Larger Moments Organize Thing

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