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impel

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To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition. Gaston Bachelard

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action? Louis Sullivan

If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them - now. Emily Dickinson

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences. Kurt Hahn

Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill. Richard Chenevix Trench

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