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• I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Air, Curiosity, Mixing

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.368, St. Martin's Press

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• When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a supporting role or take over the breadwinning, certainly holds allure.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Responsibility, Play, Volunteer

  "I long to be a good wife but can't find anyone to marry me" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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• All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.

  David O. McKay

  Prayer, Hands, Evil

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• Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

  Nalini Singh

  Cutting, Fire, White

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.215, Penguin

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• They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

  Umberto Eco

  Two, Ignorant, Western Culture

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

  Barry Eisler

  New York, Book, Lists

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• The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

  Deborah Tannen

  Love Is, Promise, Wish

  Deborah Tannen (2001). “I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives”, p.23, Random House

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• ... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James Duncan

  Dream, Way, Lifelong

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.276, Dial Press

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• Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

  Stan Rice

  Dream, Stars, Pain

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• In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

  George Will

  America, Office, Suitcases

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• L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

  James Frey

  Diversity, Unconventional, Horror

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

  Martin Jacques

  Sports, Cheating, Rose

  "Ubiquitous cheating means sport has no level playing field" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.

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• The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, Worry

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• Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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• Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.

  Steven M. Stanley

  Order, Ice, Civilization

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• I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Ideas, Perfect

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• When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

  Bill Ayers

  Unions, Communism, China

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bill Ayers". Interview with Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. December 1, 2013.

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• The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue.

  Dannah Gresh

  Men, Issues, Challenges

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• Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fun, Men, Femininity

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

  Seungri

  Sexy, Artist, Males

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• The allure becomes, "Can I make these rooms bigger?" Can I fill these 1,500-seat rooms? Then the allure is, how much, if we're being honest, how much can I squeeze out of it financially?

  Jay Mohr

  Rooms, Honest, Bigger

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Personality, Use

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• I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

  Jay Mohr

  Class, Ceilings, Middle

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.

  Thakoon Panichgul

  Fashion, Thinking, Individuality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have done political things, I couldn't care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don't allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people's behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.

  Rick Warren

  Zero, Believe, Heart

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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