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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Walter Bagehot
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We met each other in junior high back in the '60s. Motown was in its heyday then. So we were no different than most groups in that we wanted to be like the Miracles, the Four Tops and the Temptations. But my brother Scotty and I had grown up listening to groups like the Four Freshmen. Our father was a big jazz enthusiast, too. So what you hear today is an amalgamation of all that.

Sir Walter Scott
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We are mindful that the tight natural gas supplies could create temptations for improper behavior by some market participants.

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

Margaret Oliphant
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Sadly, there is a small group of parents who do not respect education and they come not just from deprived circumstances but from among the better-off as well. This attitude seriously damages children's future prospects and leaves them vulnerable to the temptations and dangers of the streets.

Steve Sinnott
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Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.

Christopher Love
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

Larry Flynt
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain
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There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Boris Yeltsin
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This is about helping your child fight off what's going on in the community as far as the temptations that are taking place.

Susan Woodford
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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As a parent, Gov. Rell is well aware of the risks, temptations and peer pressure on campus, especially for college freshmen. One of the goals of this initiative is a better support network for these students.

Judd Everhart
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If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Neal A. Maxwell
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Our storylines grew organically out of the characters and conflicts that already existed in the show. We wanted them to challenge themselves, with the temptations of power, with their own unique combination of hubris and self-doubt.

Dwayne Mcduffie
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I became aware of Gamble And Huff, the whole Philadelphia sound and the work Norman Whitfield was doing with The Temptations. It wasn't just party music anymore. It had a message. That's how I got into black music while my friends were becoming hippies.

Arthur Baker
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The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life,the stronger the enemy's temptations.

John Wycliffe
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Robert H. Bork
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