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"Compulsive" Quotes from Famous Books

... compulsive fear isn't easy to conquer. No man or woman can conquer it alone. Historians tell us that when the first passenger rocket started out for Mars, Space Fear took men by surprise in the same way your fear gripped ...

— The Man from Time • Frank Belknap Long

... To each it is drawn more powerfully than any age preceding. Neither of the two does it quite comprehend. If we can render the nobler somewhat more intelligible, we may increase the confidence of those who now, half-ashamed, follow its glorious but blindly compulsive call. ...

— The Nature of Goodness • George Herbert Palmer

... your general rules, your appropriated customs, your settled forms, are but so many absurd arrangements to impede not merely the progress of genius, but the use of understanding? If man dared act for himself, if neither worldly views, contracted prejudices, eternal precepts, nor compulsive examples, swayed his better reason and impelled his conduct, how noble indeed would he be! how infinite in faculties! in apprehension how like a ...

— Cecilia Volume 1 • Frances Burney

... in cases of chronic psychoneurosis which exhibit no difficult or dangerous phenomena. Among these are counted all sorts of compulsive neuroses, compulsive thoughts, compulsive behavior and cases of hysteria, where phobias and obsessions play a chief role, also somatic phenomena of hysteria which do not need to be acted upon quickly, such as, for example, anorexia. In acute ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... or frequent compulsive attendances on tedious and unimproving exercises in a college hall.—T. Warton, Minor Poems ...

— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

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