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• But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

  Tony Kushner

  Confused, Love Is, Play

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Artist

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.48, Courier Dover Publications

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• How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

  Anne Rice

  Children, Heart, I Love Him

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• An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Art, People, Revolution

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• I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Passion, Faces, Found

  Andrea Bocelli (2011). “The Music of Silence: New Edition”, p.301, Amadeus Press

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• It was 4 or 5 years into my first design job before the idea of doing graphic design on computers started taking hold. I started working in 1980, the Macintosh was introduced in 1984, then the real desktop publishing only started coming around in 85-86, but it wasn't really until the end of the decade that the transition became irresistible.

  Michael Bierut

  Jobs, Real, Years

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

  Lisa Gansky

  Information, Devices, Sharing Things

  "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bridges, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Quiet, Satyagraha, Pursuit

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Elements, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

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• I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Orchids

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• The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Attitude, Communication, Mean

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• A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

  Peter Drucker

  Example, Development, Superiors

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.

  Max Weber

  Cells, Order, Everyday

  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ch. 5 (1920) (translation by Talcott Parsons)

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

  Wen Jiabao

  Believe, People, Chinese

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• Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences.

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Men, Self

  Napoleon Hill (1983). “Grow rich!--: with peace of mind”, Fawcett Books

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• Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He’s irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

  Rob Delaney

  Mean, Want, Pay

  "Rob Delaney Talks New Online Special, Clint Eastwood’s RNC Speech & Being Mitt Romney’s Nemesis". Interview with Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Advice, Temptation, Fit

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• Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Feminist, Kind, Annoying

  Interview with Guy Haley, guyhaley.wordpress.com. September 17, 2014.

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• All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.

  Herman Melville

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Mind, Mature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.187, Graphic Arts Books

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• The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible.

  John Burgoyne

  Military, Hands, Bayonets

  John Burgoyne (1860). “Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne: From His Entry Into the State of New York Until His Surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct. 1777 : from the Original Manuscript Deposited at Washington's Head Quarters, Newburgh, N.Y.”, p.3

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• There are a lot of things that are in the show that harken back to the old show, but I really wanted to resist doing a greatest hits. It was irresistible to do a greatest hits, but it was almost too easy. There are things that I know are still ahead of us, in the future of whatever Arrested Development brings.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Development, Easy, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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