#tempt

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. ↗

— Will Rogers

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. ↗

— John Wesley Powell

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You know what, life is full of temptations. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model. ↗

— Justin Sane

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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string. ↗

— Edward Witten

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Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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