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The stars incline but do not impel, and we should always remember the principal of the Free Will.— Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
This does not make me blind to his faults (with his Hillary-hatred topping my personal list), but it does impel me from time to time to compose a poetic tribute.— The Moderate Voice
It is not elegant literature alone that boys need, but inspiring ideals which will impel them to stand fearlessly to their guns, to do the hard thing with untiring perseverance, to reach the result with unerring insight.— The Common Room
I never cease to be amazed that our societies are so corrupt as to allow one tiny, bellicose and belligerent group to dominate debate and impel us all to religious war, all the time demanding unstinting praise and adulation, and vilifying any who dare differ as racists, the most pathological projection imaginable.— Dissident Voice
Thereupon His goodness once realized draws us to love Him unselfishly, yet more than our own needs impel us to love Him selfishly: even as the Samaritans told the woman who announced that it was Christ who was at the well: ` Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard Him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world '(John 4.42).— felix hominum

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