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• No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fate, Destiny, Men

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• Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

  Michel Foucault

  Opposites, Promise, Principles

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.96, Vintage

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• That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.

  Stewart Copeland

  Rocks, Sirens, Whole

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• In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

  Barbara Holland

  Red, Argument, Pubs

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sorrow, World, Sirens

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• The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

  Christopher Morley

  Everlasting, Fascinating, Corners

  Christopher Morley, Ken Kalfus, Walter Jack Duncan (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”, p.3, Fordham Univ Press

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• Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family--they go together, hand in hand, and so must we!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Brother, Hands, Forever

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• The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, World, Probability

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• I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Pigs, Self

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Errors, Solitude

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.37, Routledge

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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• Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!

  Richelle Mead

  Smell, Car, Silence

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• The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And one lies safe in the sunlight, and the other is dreary and wan,But you look aslant at the Lone Trail, and the Lone Trail lures you on.

  Robert W. Service

  Lying, Looks, World

  Robert William Service, “The Lone Trail”

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• Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

  Howard Blum

  People, Gold, Panacea

  "The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum". Interview with Amy Meng, www.publishersweekly.com. February 21, 2011.

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• For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Corporations, Way

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• I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Beautiful, Real, Men

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• There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

  Dan Chaon

  Adventure, Car, Verge

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• My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air.

  Dave Willis

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.

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• There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Laughing, Doubt

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• Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

  Mark Hall

  Strong, Bait, Bass

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• Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

  James W. Loewen

  Eye, Fishing, Adoption

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.

  Jean Lorrain

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, God Exists, Ifs

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sex, Teenager, Ocean

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