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The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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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. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ↗

— George Savile

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I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

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We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

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