#tempt

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

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That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ↗

— Joey Adams

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The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money. ↗

— Ben Affleck

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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

#avoid #contention #creating #discourses #inseparable

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

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We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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