#tract

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. ↗

— Og Mandino

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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know? ↗

— Shimon Peres

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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

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I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. ↗

— Caleb Carr

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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ↗

— Christian Dior

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Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

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