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• Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

  Don Roff

  Character, Doors, Feet

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• The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians and a lead singer whose commitment to artistic freedom was so intense he rocketed them to a success that always hovered on the edge of chaos. As an independent filmmaker this sensibility affected me greatly.

  Tom DiCillo

  Independent, Commitment, Rocks

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• From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy city? Arguably, no. Companies need healthy cities to provide reliable infrastructure, an educated and vital workforce, a vibrant economy, and a safe and secure environment to survive and thrive. Business executives have a lot to learn from cities, and a lot to contribute, and this book shows the way, chronicling the successes and the lessons learned about what it takes to make a city healthy, in every sense of the word.

  Joel Makower

  Book, Cities, Perspective

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• Horror, let's face it, is basically pretty dumb. You're writing about events that are preposterous, and the trick is to dress them up in language so compelling that the reader doesn't care.

  T. E. D. Klein

  Writing, Dumb, Events

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• Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

  David W. Orr

  Powerful, Journey, Long

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• The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

  Seth Godin

  Purpose, Want, Elevators

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• These are things I'd never seen before, they were very disturbing and they were very compelling to try and do something to change the situation for the animals. Farm animals are providing us with the food to stay alive, so I think we really owe them a decent life while they are alive.

  Jan Cameron

  Animal, Thinking, Trying

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• With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake. The authors make a compelling secular case for marriage as a partnership between a man and a woman, whose special status is based on society's interest in the nurture and education of children.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Country, Children, Men

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• Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.

  Chris Pavone

  Letting Go, Character, Laughing

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• The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world.

  William Moulton Marston

  Strong, Children, Self

  "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics". The American Scholar, Volume 13, No. 1 (p. 40), 1943.

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• ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

  Rose Bird

  Cancer, Dark, Agency

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• Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Government, Purpose, Should

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• The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

  Earl Warren

  Government, Expression, May

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Narrative, Cold, Chemical Reactions

  "My Life's Sentences". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

  Hayden Carruth

  Song, Stars, Flower

  Hayden Carruth (1998). “Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press

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• I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

  Gillian Flynn

  Thinking, Issues, Interesting

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• If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection

  John Holdren

  Children, Responsibility, Exercise

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• All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Intelligent, Voice, Encounters

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• Imagine a country where the majority of the population reaps the majority of the benefits for their hard work, creative ingenuity, and collaborative efforts. Imagine a country where corporate losses arent socialized, while gains are captured by an exclusive minority. Imagine a country run as a democracy, from the bottom up, not a plutocracy from the top down. Richard Wolff not only imagines it, but in his compelling, captivating and stunningly reasoned new book, Democracy at Work, he details how we get there from here - and why we absolutely must.

  Nomi Prins

  Running, Country, Book

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• The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

  Jessica Jackley

  Sexy, Fun, Light

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• The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.

  Min Jin Lee

  Real, Order, Despair

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• In his scintillating new novel, Matt Bondurant explores a crucial period in the history of Virginia and of his family. His gorgeous, precise prose brings to life an amazing cast of characters, including Sherwood Anderson, and the often deadly battles of Prohibition. The Wettest County in the World is a remarkably compelling, highly intelligent, and deeply moving novel.

  Margot Livesey

  Moving, Character, Intelligent

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• All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Stories, Storytelling

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• God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Max Lucado (2007). “Book of Ephesians: Where You Belong”, p.59, Harper Collins

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• A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

  Oliver Sacks

  Profound, Brain, Intriguing

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