"Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation."
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"Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated."
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"Temptation: the fiend at my elbow."
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"A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks."
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"There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn."
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"In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian."
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"We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass."
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"Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation."
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"What Clint Eastwood meant was when you are directing and starring in a film, there's a temptation to spend more time on the other actors' performances, and then when you get to your own work, you kind of go, "Oh, yeah, well, let's cut that." And he said, "Take your time and make sure you do your work right." It's especially good advice if you're going from one career to another."
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"When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public."
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"Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong."
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"He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth."
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"Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation."
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"A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations."
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"When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa."
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"Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents."
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation."
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"Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation."
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"I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism."
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"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
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