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

Nature Passion Chance Habit

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge Mind Which Hold

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Man Memory Slavery Study

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Life Health Society Reckless

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Way Down Things Only

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell

Mind Discipline Right Lead

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

Life Man Help Only

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

Science Time People Living

I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

Walter Cronkite

Me Feel Matter News

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

Me Business Strong Down

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Life History Imagination Influence

In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up - or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.

Beginning Better Doing Without

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Nationality State Consent

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

Pope Benedict XVI

Matter Someone Own Only

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

You People World Information

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Far Void Flock Fill

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Work Spiritual Meaning Product

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Life You My Life Think

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

Me People Who Songs

I don't miss 'Saturday Night Live.' I feel less of a need for the fulfillment that performance used to give... I don't have to do everything right away. As long as I can walk and jump, I'll still perform, but I no longer feel such a compulsion.

Walk Night Long Feel

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.

Life Myself My Life Daily

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Simplicity Return Our Spectacular

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

Juliana Hatfield

Life Truth My Own Own

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Juliana Hatfield

Music Stop Curse Obsession

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it.

Nature Good Good Things Think

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

Food Character Chemical Disorder

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