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lsi Quotes and Quotations
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle | top
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust. Charles Baudelaire | top
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake | top
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. Andrew Coyle Bradley | top
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We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. Everett Dirksen | top
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression. Albert Ellis | top
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In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive. Stephen Gardiner | top
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. Walter Gropius | top
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I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. Edward Hall | top
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I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks. Theodore Hall | top
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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens. Laurell K. Hamilton | top
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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich | top
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We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever. Elton John | top
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One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. Rem Koolhaas | top
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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. LeGuin | top
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Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it. Lionel K. Murphy | top
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No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory. Plato | top
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child. Oliver Platt | top
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. Alexander Pope | top
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. Karl Rahner | top
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I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person. Marion Ross | top
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For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction. George Stephanopoulos | top
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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. Anthony Storr | top
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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. Themistocles | top
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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. Simone Weil | top
