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96 quotesOne must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Acceptance
Albert Einstein
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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Language
George Eliot
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Deeds and Good Deeds
T. S. Eliot
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There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
Difficulties
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Temptation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Temptation
Frederick W. Faber
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The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
Education
Paul Karl Feyerabend
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Pride
Benjamin Franklin
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Culture
Mahatma Gandhi
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Courage
Vincent Van Gogh
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Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.
Hatred
Albert Guerard
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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.
Faith
John Haggai
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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
Life and Living
Sidney J. Harris
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Familiarity
William Hazlitt
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Taboos
William Hazlitt
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
Immortality
Joseph Heller
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Temptation
Don Herold
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Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Self-image
Eric Hoffer
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The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Theory
Sherlock Holmes
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Opinions
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Temptation
Anthony Hope
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Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
Trying
William Van Horne
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Fiction
Henry James
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Achievement
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Complaints and Complaining
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun