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Letter "C" » compulsions
«Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.»
«The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Discipline
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«Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
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Action
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«We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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compulsion, compulsions, disasters, guilty, heavenly, villains
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