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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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Todd Solondz

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

- Adina Rosenbaum

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.

- Alaa Hosni

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.

- Alberto Madrigal

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.`

- Alice Schwarzer

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.

- Allie Zazzali

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.

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Plato
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