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We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'
- Gunter Grass
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The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.
- Gerard Malanga
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There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background.
- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.
- Prithviraj Sukumaran
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If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
- Joanna Scott
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Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.
- Michael O'Brien
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
- Karl Abraham
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A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
- Raymond Carver
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
- Theodore Bikel
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We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
- Don Mattingly
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I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
- James L. Buckley
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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
- John Gardner
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
- Jacques Derrida
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
- Ian Mckellen
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I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
- Thelma Golden
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The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.
- Glenn McGrath
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
- Kathleen Wynne
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We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.
- Giorgio Napolitano
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Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.
- Jonah Hill
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My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.
- Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
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These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
- Jim Sensenbrenner
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I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.
- Matt Ridley
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Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
- Tom Sizemore
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As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
- Tom Perrotta
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A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.
- Tom McCarthy
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I can't resist temptation of any kind.
- Prue Leith
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
- Georg Simmel
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
- Felix Dennis
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
- Anthony Trollope
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
- Hans Kung
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
- Anthony Hope
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
- Philip Kerr
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I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.
- Howard Rheingold
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Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
- Mike DeWine
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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
- David McCullough
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Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.
- Monica Johnson
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I struggle just like everybody else struggles. It's always a struggle in life to overcome temptation. I just try and get through it. No one is perfect.
- Chris Weidman
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Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
- Jerry Falwell
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People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.
- Tim Tebow
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The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits.
- Yemi Osinbajo
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
- Thomas Malthus
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Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.
- John Bytheway
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
- Edmund Morgan
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Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.
- Mother Angelica
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
- Frederick William Faber
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When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.
- David Milch
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- James Branch Cabell
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There is a temptation to have shortcuts and not put in the time and the effort. I think you have to be willing to talk to people and sit sometimes around a table and listen to other people.
- Blase J. Cupich
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I've already made up my mind that I have the victory.
- Joyce Meyer
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
- George Orwell
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It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
- Bob Newhart
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
- H. L. Mencken
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
- William Shakespeare
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
- Oscar Wilde
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
- George Muller
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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
- Lyman Abbott
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
- Lyman Abbott
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
- Ugo Betti
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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
- Smokey Robinson
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
- Don Herold
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
- Billy Sunday
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
- James A. Michener
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
- E. Stanley Jones
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner
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Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
- Edwin Louis Cole
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
- Anne Baxter
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
- Joey Adams
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I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
- DeForest Kelley
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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
- Franklin P. Jones
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
- Rita Mae Brown
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
- Larry McMurtry
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
- John Owen
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There's always the temptation, as a cinematographer, to make the shot look as perfect as possible.
- Greig Fraser
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- William Butler Yeats
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
- Sam Levenson
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
- Robert Browning
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
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It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.
- Daniel Ricciardo
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
- Christopher Hitchens
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I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.
- Charles R. Swindoll
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
- T. S. Eliot
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
- John Locke
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
- H. L. Mencken
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
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