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"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."

"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."

"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."

"Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them."

"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."

"Trying to cool his jets, trying to let her stay in charge, he attempted to hold back, but she let out this breathy little whimper like he was the best thing she'd ever tasted."

"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

"Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspired by the one idea of nonviolent resistance. King received it from Gandhi, Gandhi received it from Tolstoy, and Tolstoy received it from Christ."

"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people."

"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."

"Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what's preferable for you."

"Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people."

"All of his (Nanak's) progressive thinking attained absolution at the age of 30, when he had the transcendental experience, quite similar to that of Mohammed and Joan of Arc, that was about to rock the very foundation of orthodox Hinduism in India."
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