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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck / Author
Apologetic
Grateful
Lions
Pride
Profession
Am
Impelled
Lion
Mouse
Roar
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich / American Political Figure
Men
Book
Every Man
Writing
Diaper
Impelled
Recent
Recent Years
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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.
William Inge / Playwright
Affinity
Attraction
Risk
Venture
Contains
Element
Impelled
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I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.
Sarah Hall / Novelist
Demonic
Making Up
Impelled
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
Karl Jaspers / Psychiatrist
Men
Clinic
Desire
Facts
Laboratory
Long
Long Time
Medicine
Resolution
Study
Tied
Time Work Knowledge
Began
Disciplined
Work Time Knowledge
Impelled
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As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.
Ivan Pavlov / Physiologist
Adrenal Glands
Deeper
Discovery
Glands
Lying
Nervous
Apparatus
Canal
Digestive
Immediately
Impelled
Seek
Similar
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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.
Jerome K. Jerome / Writer
Conclusion
Disease
Extraordinary
Form
Medicine
Particular
Patents
Suffering
Advertisement
Read
Dealt
Impelled
Patent
Therein
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
Military
Profession
Speak
Use
Warfare
Atomic
Life Today My Life
Impelled
Preferred
Spent
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While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy / Journalist
Fear God
Considerations
Favor
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Good Opinion
Governed
Highly
Impelled
Permitted
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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.
Alfred Einstein / Editor
Connected
Dry
Inevitable
Arrive
Catalogue
Impelled
In The End
Present
Perhaps
Personal
Understandable
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In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Giorgio Vasari / Painter
Beautiful
Beautiful Paintings
Children
Simple
Wilderness
Begun
Draw
Impelled
Instructed
Roughly
Sculptures
Solely
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You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.
Edward Viii /
Forget
Making Up
Renounce
Twenty Five
Wales
Empire
Impelled
Lately
Reasons
Serve
Throne
Tried
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
Edmund White / Novelist
Life Truth Great
Detail
Examined
Handed
Impelled
Scarcely
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I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
Richard Eyre / Television Director
Better Place
Desire
Life Love Best
Politicians
Impelled
Inclined
Reasons
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
Vikram Seth / Novelist
Concerned
Impulse
He Or She
Impelled
Tends
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White / Novelist
Bohemia
Burning
Burning Desire
Comfort
Desire
Justify
Poverty
Choose
Confess
Different Person
Entirely
Impelled
Toward
Turned
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The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the state banks, impelled a further inflationary expansion of state banks on top of the spectacular enlargement of the central bank. Thus, the number of incorporated state banks rose from 232 in 1816 to 338 in 1818.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Enlargement
Insisting
Operations
Payment
Spectacular
Bank
Banks
Central
Central Bank
Coupled
Further
Impelled
Incorporated
Thus
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