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• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

  C.E. Morgan

  Struggle, Ambition, Boredom

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glorious Life, Curves, Perfection

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.63, Virginia Woolf

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• I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.

  Chris Rose

  Home, Land, Essence

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.

  Nalini Singh

  Susceptible

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.220, Penguin

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• The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Reading, Ears

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.7, Scholastic Inc.

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• And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hurt, Men, Order

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• ʺWho′s a spirit user?ʺ said Robert. ʺFormer spirit user,ʺ said Victor, ʺShe became a Strigoi to get away from it.ʺ ʺYes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .ʺ said Robert.

  Richelle Mead

  Loss, Spirit, Immortality

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• your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.

  Rick Riordan

  Loyalty, Cutting, Loss

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• the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

  Amelia Earhart

  Stars, Night, Flying

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• You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

  Moira J. Moore

  Wine, Chocolate, Trying

  Moira J. Moore (2011). “Heroes at Odds”, p.77, Penguin

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• Trade it may help, society extend,
  But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
  It raises armies in a nation's aid,
  But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Money, Army, Land

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• When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.

  Charley Harper

  Lying, Artist, Color

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

  Susan Cain

  Focus, Tasks, Wealth

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Age, Problem, Conflict

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.6, Random House

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• Let go the lure
  The striving to unmake;
  Behold the truth
  Whenever heart may ache
  There is a glory
  In a great mistake.

  Nathalia Crane

  Letting Go, Mistake, Heart

  "Swear By the Night and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Imperfection"), 1936.

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• An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, Yield, Leviathan

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

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• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Evil, May, Able

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 1-4. Practice), 1980.

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• I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing presence that seduces and lures people. I think Barcelona has a lot of that.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dark, Men, Thinking

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• While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hunting, Hands, Desire

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

  Richard G. Scott

  Memories, Guilt, Trying

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• The soul is the lure of our becoming.

  Jean Houston

  Soul, Becoming

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• Learn to manage your mind. Do not let a situation lure you into thinking negatively. Sometimes you will fail but you'll learn for the next time. Every time a negative thought comes at you ZAP IT! Replace it with positive thoughts. That takes energy but the result will be stamina, positive stamina, the necessary ingredient for success.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Mind, Energy

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• If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Home, Wife, Cheerful

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