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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

  Al Gore

  Opportunity, Culture, Attention

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.241, Routledge

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• I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Thinking, Knows

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.93, Penguin Group

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• The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Air, Ecosystems

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

  Fred Tomaselli

  Art, Believe, Form

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• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Violence, Action

  "The Question of Peace". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293, July–August 1915.

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• Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.

  Michel Faber

  Real, Character, Writing

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Insult

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• After a lustre of the moon, we say
  We have not the need of any paradise,
  We have not the need of any seducing hymn.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moon, Hymns, Needs

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.290, Vintage

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• In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the most tenacious instinct for self-preservation, should be considered stronger and saner than her frailer and no longer living sisters. One couldn't have it both ways, he'd pointed out: if women are seduced and abandoned they're supposed to go mad, but if they survive, and seduce in their turn, then they were mad to begin with.

  Margaret Atwood

  Self, Bridges, Mad

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

  William Law

  Wife, Virtuous Woman, Found

  Lyndon W. Cook, William Law (1994). “William Law”, Grandin Book Co

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• All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Actors, Want, One Thing

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• I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

  Ilona Andrews

  Mother, Couple, Mean

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• You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.

  Bradley Cooper

  Being Yourself, Real, People

  Interview with Holly Weber, me.askmen.com.

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• Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.

  Christian Louboutin

  Men, Shoes, Men And Women

  "Shoes Inspiration- Interview with Christian Louboutin". Interview with Nina Papaioannou, trendsurvivor.com. July 6, 2014.

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• The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Ideas, Sacred, Example

  Source: www.apologetics315.com

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• We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

  George Ripley

  Men, Intellectual, Suffering

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• Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.

  Iris Smyles

  Dream, Thinking, Desire

  "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Dream, Believe

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, you see the sons of God seduce some of the women on the earth and they produce a race of people known as the Nephilim. According to legend they taught man about war, astrology, and magic. I'm fascinated by the idea.

  Carl McCoy

  War, Book, Son

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• Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

  Oliver Sacks

  Brain, Addresses, Hallucinations

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• It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Seductive, Dollars

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• Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Eye, Arrows

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Trying, Path

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.67, Vintage Canada

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• Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

  Voltaire

  Queens, Giving, Faces

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