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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. ↗

— Billie Jean King

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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

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