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Letter "C" » compelled
«A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.»
«And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
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Astronomer,
Mathematician,
Philosopher)
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About:
Doubt,
Mankind,
Religion
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Keywords:
apt,
bring about,
compelled,
competence,
devoid,
devoid of,
disorders,
experts,
free state,
novelties,
slavishly,
submit,
subversion,
subversions,
whatsoever,
whim
«. . . each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.»
Author: Jack London
(
Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
beaten,
claims,
compelled,
farther,
forest,
forest fire,
imperiously,
lured,
lures,
luring,
mysteriously,
On and On,
plunge,
slipped,
sounding,
The Call,
thrilling
«But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.»
«A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.»
«Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.»
Author: Karl Marx
(
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
Air conditioning,
antiquated,
bourgeois,
compelled,
distinguish,
earlier,
epoch,
epochs,
frozen,
ossified,
ossify,
production,
profaned,
profaning,
revolutionize,
revolutionized,
revolutionizing,
sober,
solid,
sweep away,
swept,
Swept Away,
venerable
«Arms are instruments of ill omen. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. When great numbers of people are killed, one shou»
Author: Lao Tzu
(
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
compelled,
despite,
exult,
glorifies,
glorify,
glorifying,
instruments,
killing,
numbers,
omen,
omens,
relish,
relished,
relishes,
relishing,
The Killing,
well-to-do
«A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.»
«All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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Keywords:
compelled,
frequent,
frequented,
frequenting,
frequents,
institution,
liberty,
maintain,
opinion,
persons,
religious,
religious liberty,
religious person,
such institutions
«During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.»