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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. by William Shakespeare

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

William Shakespeare
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. by William Shakespeare

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

William Shakespeare
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Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?

Zygmunt Bauman
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A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.

Tom McCarthy
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My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.

Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
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I always wanted to be a main eventer in pro wrestling. I lived my dream, but the excess of the '80s and the huge money of the '90s became a great temptation for many of us.

Scott Hall
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We need to resist the temptation to create more entitlements and more entitlements, which is one of the reasons we are heading recklessly toward fiscal crisis.

Jeff Sessions
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue... by Lyman Abbott

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott
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Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

Michael O'Brien
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Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

Monica Johnson
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Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will... by Mother Angelica

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Mother Angelica
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There is a temptation for an actor to editorialize what they're doing. And you can't do that with Pinter. It's almost like a musical score. His lines are so specific, but they can mean different things to different people, like an alternating current.

Peter Riegert
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

Philip Kerr
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My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

Dennis Edwards
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We have a portion of our show where we ask everybody to get up and do the Temptation Walk. People 8 to 80 know how to do that Temptation Walk.

Dennis Edwards
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I'm not an original member, though I'm sort of an original member. I've been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.

Dennis Edwards
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When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

Daniel Ricciardo
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There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

Giorgio Napolitano
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