#tempt

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#banner #before #communism #feelings #libertarian

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

#begun #contempt #family #i #important

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set. ↗

— Roger Moore

#film #film set #set #tempting #things

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#destruction #often #others #perish #plot

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#armed #attempt #group #impose #upon

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#clean #comedians #decided #decision #early

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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