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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"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."
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"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
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"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
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"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
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"If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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