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«The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.»
«Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.»
«The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently, and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken»
«Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges»
Author: The Talmud | Keywords: conquers, hero, urges
«When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.»
«It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.»
«For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Solitude | Keywords: retirement, urges
«Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic»
«Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.»
«To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving»