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tempted
«To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.»
«The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank»
«Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.»
Author: Pauline Kael
(Author, Critic)
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attracted, audiences, bore, drop in, in on, shameful, tempted, Thirty one, Thirty Years
«Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand - I am tempted to think - there are no little things»
«The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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Society
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happening, identify, nowadays, particularly, tempted, totalitarian, unpleasant
«Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
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around, at leisure, concentrated, concentrates, direction, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, have-not, leisure, live in, purposes, state, sufficiently, tempted, They Live, vegetative, virtuous
«When I'm tempted to do something that feels like giving up, I won't ... because love doesn't give up (I Corinthians, 13). But, lest I push love aside, I will make sure that what I'm holding on to can coexist with love.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
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coexist, Corinthian, Corinthians, giving up, lest, tempted
«We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
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abandon, American values, commitments, era, generations, honored, luxuries, necessities, proven, salt, tempted, this century, time-honored, transition, transitions, uneasy
«There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.»