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• It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

  Sarah Palin

  Demand, May, Down And

  Resignation Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2009.

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• Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Political, Vision

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.179, St. Martin's Press

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• It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Pain, Bystanders, Speak No Evil

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.7, Basic Books

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• I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Writing, Thinking, Parent

  Sarah Ruhl (2014). “100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Leading up to a live event you need to do your homework and go to bed early. Sometimes it's very tempting to go out with everybody else, They're all going to a party or going out for a nice meal and you think 'oh well I'd like to go', but sometimes you think 'no, if I'm going to be sitting in front of a camera under a light in everybody's home tomorrow I don't want big bags under my eyes and not really know what I'm talking about'.

  Jill Douglas

  Nice, Party, Home

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

  David Gilmour

  People, Worry, Trying

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• Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

  Chuck Eddy

  School, Hawthorne, Meticulous

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• Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Eye, Iron

  Charles Dickens (1875). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.426

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• I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's a great deal to be said for immediate matrimony always. If I once got started I'd probably have to become a mormon to cover my confusion. What I mean is that if he and she are crazy about each other it is sheer tempting God to stay apart, come what may. And if people arent crazy about each other being engaged wont help them.

  John Dos Passos

  Marriage, Crazy, Mean

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

  Blaise Pascal

  Opportunity, Men, Errors

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• The only thing that I'm not willing to do is really stupid, horribly written sitcoms. It can be tempting during pilot season time, but I realized this a while ago when I almost signed my life away to a stupid pilot.

  Ari Graynor

  Stupid, Pilots, I Realized

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

  Franz Kafka

  Seduction, Assuming, Sometimes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.

  Tony Benn

  Deny, Ifs

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• The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Jobs, Fascination, Illusion

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• No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

  Arthur Keith

  Errors, Charm, Form

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• With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes along, though freedom remains total with each step: any tempting side road can be turned into an impulse, or any wild patch of woods can be explored. The pattern of the walk is to come true, is to be recognized, discovered.

  A. R. Ammons

  Journey, Hiking, Numbers

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

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• It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Ideas

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• A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

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• It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

  Hermann Hesse

  Men, Shining, Lovely

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Men, Position Of Power

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• Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom

  Vladimir Putin

  Giving, Challenges, Feelings

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• Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Morning, Years, Missing

  "Q&A: Chetan Bhagat on His New Book". Interview with Diksha Sahni, blogs.wsj.com. September 19, 2011.

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• It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!

  Mallory Ortberg

  Return, Rudeness

  "Do It for the Kids". Live chat, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.

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• The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

  Joseph Butler

  Lying, Vices, Deceit

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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