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• I try to stay far away from all of them. I was tempted to go to my snotty high school reunion, but luckily I resisted the urge--when I received the hand-out that described what everyone is doing now, I fell asleep reading it. Boring!

  Princess Superstar

  Reading, School, Hands

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• You will be tempted by the need to feed yourself.

  Rick Warren

  Needs

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• Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

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• There are times when a golfer is tempted to throw her clubs away and forget the whole 'humblin' business.' At other times, she wouldn't trade places with a queen-that's when the shots are long and true, and putts are dropping.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Queens, Long, Clubs

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• Don't wear bacon cologne. If you put on...you know what? Screw it. Wear it. If you are the type of guy who is tempted to wear bacon cologne, it's not like you could get laid any less.

  Bill Maher

  Guy, Like You, Type

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

  Rolf Potts

  Running, Might, Problem

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Good Morning, Summer, Believe

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• Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

  Ayn Rand

  Temptation, Facts, Judgment

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.613, Hamilton Books

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• It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

  Lee Iacocca

  Years, Two, Looks

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.149, Bantam

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• Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust.  We don’t lust after very many things in life.  We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel?  The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country.  To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live… in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.’

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Passion, Animal

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• Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you livein our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Country, Imagination, Lovers

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.8, Seal Press

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• When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

  George Washington

  May, Fruit, Seduction

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.128

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• It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

  Edward Witten

  Change, Introducing, Bigs

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• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Animal, May

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Money, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838). “Works”, p.644

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• He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
  The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
  Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
  Against temptation.

  John Milton

  Temptation, Lasts, Corruption

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.526, Modern Library

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• My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

  Carrie-Anne Moss

  Husband, People, Dinner

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Eye, Angel

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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Party, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

  John Vianney

  Religious, Blessed, Helping

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• Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

  Mary Stewart

  Luck, Wells, Ifs

  Mary Stewart (2011). “Nine Coaches Waiting”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

  Libba Bray

  Rose, Forever, Thorns

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

  Bernard Levin

  Thinking, Liberty, Poverty

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• If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, War

  "Quarantine the Aggressor". Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the world situation in Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1937.

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