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impelled
«Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.»
«It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.»
«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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«They, whose wisdom has been carried away by various desires impelled by their own deeds, resort to other gods and practice various religious rites.»
«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
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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)
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