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• There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Religious, Opportunity, Hands

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

  Theodor Fontane

  Sweetness Of Life, Accompany Us, Use

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• As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

  John Sandford

  Hurt, Pain, Garden

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• Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

  Ben Affleck

  Memories, Balance, Fabric

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• It's very, very tempting to make a superhero film or show and make it about the powers.

  Charlie Cox

  Superhero, Film, Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

  Stephen Farrell

  Fate, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.

  Laura Mullen

  Grief, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause of sickness. It is tempting to relax from our duties, take refuge in ill-health and hide under a nice warm blanket.

  Patanjali

  Nice, Grief, Self

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• When I make decisions based on other circumstances, things don't necessarily go so well. So sometimes, even if something seems commercially tempting, I've learned that if it's not what's in your heart, it's probably not what you should do.

  Renny Harlin

  Heart, Decision, Sometimes

  "HDTGM: A Conversation with Renny Harlin". Interview with Blake Harris, www.slashfilm.com. June 15, 2016.

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• Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Thinking, Past, Technology

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.

  Adam Hochschild

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

  Seungri

  Sexy, Artist, Males

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.

  Vladimir Putin

  Iran, Order, Europe

  Source: russialist.org

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• While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Play, Risk

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• Remember, when you're sinned against its tempting to respond sinfully. Don't give in, talk to your heart and seek the grace of Jesus.

  Paul David Tripp

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

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• When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sweet, Sleep, Eye

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• It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

  Roger Moore

  Film, Film Set, Bad Things

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• I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

  Ruth Glick

  Cooking, Recipes, Creation

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• People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, People, Missing

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• Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

  Adrienne Mayor

  War, Ideas, Years

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• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  Ethel Smyth

  Artist, Blow, Doubt

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• Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Use, Environment, Consciousness

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.18, Basic Books

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• It is tempting to think of your husband-to-be as just another bridal accessory. It may be easier for him to play along with this too. After all, you don't expect your shoes or your beaded bag to help you make decisions.

  Mimi Pond

  Husband, Thinking, Play

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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