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What destroys a man is often within his sight; if he couldn't see it, he wouldn't be tempted to touch it. Therefore, wisdom lies not only in avoiding what's harmful but also in guarding one's eyes against the allure of destruction. – Christen Kuikoua	added by ChristenKuikouafans 5 days ago
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.) – Robert Wright	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
If you have bought 1000 nos share @ Rs.99, then you will often find that its price is moving in the range of Rs.95-98 but not touching Rs.99 or going over it. So you will be tempted to buy @ Rs.95 to average and gain profit. But the day you will buy you will usually find that its price is now not touching Rs.95 and rather has started hovering in the range of Rs.90-94. Averaging is not solution rater best tactic is to sacrifice 100 shares @ Rs.98 and make a few loss because then it will baffle your web trading platform and so price will starting going up and then you can send the balance 900 shares @Rs.102 or more within a week time – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheispatel 1 year ago
At 11 AM today when electricity power will be restored, small traders will see that stock market has come down so those fools will be tempted to buy more shares but they do not think that ihe price will go further down thereafter in the last hour today. Brokers like SBI securities and others will allow traders to buy shares but in the last minutes it disable their trading platform to not allow traders to sell at falling spree – Lakshheish M Patel	added by laksheishmpatel_1 1 year ago
We are worried that in connection with the upcoming April 15 anniversary that the DPRK may be tempted to take another provocative action. We obviously hope not, but we will be prepared. – Kim Il	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There have been times when I have been tempted to break my Hippocratic oath, to put my patient first, because although I could save their life, they didn't have the ability to reimburse whoever had to pay for it. And what happens then is that the system goes bankrupt. You can't afford those services anymore. We can't have people who have given their life to healthcare being pulled in two directions because one party says you can't help that person. They're not in the system. – Doctor Oz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think there's any server who hasn't been tempted to quit, especially right now. – Joshuah Morton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Fed will not be tempted to rock the boat in terms of the recovery which is gathering some momentum. Raising rates or discussion on tapering would probably be counterproductive at this stage. – Ross Norman	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. – Roger McGough	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
China and other governments may be tempted to invest in coal power to help their economies recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, this risks locking in high-cost coal power that will undermine global climate targets. – Matt Gray	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
You cannot cross the borders of the soul without at least once be tempted to look back… There are worlds over there. They are calling you to turn your way… familiar faces, strangers, us who have knocked countless times at its gates and they were opened for us. – Mariana Fulger	added by MF 3 years ago
If Thomas Gaffney had reached Thomas Gaffney hand towards a pocket or something where I thought that Thomas Gaffney might have had one of the guns that went away last night or the night before, then I might have been tempted to do that. – Daniel McGown	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I think they might be tempted to join us. It is clear that there are lots of elected politicians from lots of parties that want to join the League. – Riccardo Molinari	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Skeptics would be tempted to downplay the significance of Yongbyon in favor of a more comprehensive roadmap for denuclearization, but if it's properly done, inspecting Yongbyon would have most of the necessary elements of a bigger deal. – One South Korean official	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
So what Romans 13 might invite us to do is just ask what God might be doing with some particular leader, in the case of Donald Trump, I am tempted to say God might have been working to discredit the forces in evangelicalism that contributed so much to his being elected. – Michael Rea	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Libya is a corrupt, fractured environment that offers many rewards to actors bent on evading political compromise and using brute force instead, others will feel excluded and tempted to conduct attacks and grab territory. – Jalel Harchaoui	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Whenever I see someone’s Hydrocodone sitting there, Oxycodone sitting there I’m tempted to take it….and I have over the years. – Rebecca Jones	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.” – Vincent Van Gogh	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
We offered Jerry Seinfeld $ 5 million an episode, we went in there with a staggering sum and there was tremendous confidence that no one could walk away from it. Jerry Seinfeld came to me and said, ‘ I don’t have a life, I ’m not married, I don’t have kids. ’ We gave it everything we had, Jerry Seinfeld was tempted, but in the end it was a quality of life decision. – Warren Littlefield	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Just to save 1 percent, some customers were earlier buying gold without receipts. With the 3-percent GST, now many more will be tempted to make unofficial purchases from small jewelers. – Harshad Ajmera	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
#1. The man in front of you today is a mortician, The patient died on the operating table. If you think the patient should have lived, ask the surgeons. #2. I am here to jumpstart your mind from lethargy. #3. I believe you are familiar with carnal knowledge? The concept that is, not the practical part. Someone with experience? Legal experience you dirty minded fools! #4. The only difference between you and a cow is what I teach you. #5. Most women would prefer the sperm of a law professor to that of a law student. #6. We are not authorities in law. By ‘we’ I mean ‘you’. Some of you might be tempted to think that we are in the same category! #7. You call me Sir and I call you Sir. The only difference is that YOU will mean it while I don't! #8. Not even the devil knows what a man is thinking, leave alone a woman. #9. I agree with the Honourable Justice Kwach, that the legal profession is in danger of being infiltrated by peasants. #10. For the purposes of my lectures, all time will be in GMT and only my Swiss watch will apply. #11. If your female client is going to be convicted of murder, make sure she’s pregnant. Why are you laughing? Of course, I don’t mean that you should be the one making sure! #12. I radiate knowledge because I am in intellectual puberty and not intellectual menopause. – Githu Muigai	added by anonymous 7 years ago
It's very important for Trump to bounce back strong. The sense of his inevitability is one of his strengths, if he looks weak, others will pile on and some may be tempted to leave him. – David Yepsen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Remembering our past can be a healthy exercise. We should yet beware of manipulations of our memory. By sticking to things that torment us, we can be tempted to brood over what should have, could have or would have been done.(no shoulda,coulda,woulda). When we walk down the memory lane, we learn from the past and pick for the present the fundamentals, which can be brought into play for the future. ("Walking down the memory lane" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
For those of you who are black and are tempted to ... be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling, i had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man. – President John F. Kennedy	Found on CNN 8 years ago

What destroys a man is often within his sight; if he couldn't see it, he wouldn't be tempted to touch it. Therefore, wisdom lies not only in avoiding what's harmful but also in guarding one's eyes against the allure of destruction.

– Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
5 days ago

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

– Robert Wright

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

If you have bought 1000 nos share @ Rs.99, then you will often find that its price is moving in the range of Rs.95-98 but not touching Rs.99 or going over it. So you will be tempted to buy @ Rs.95 to average and gain profit. But the day you will buy you will usually find that its price is now not touching Rs.95 and rather has started hovering in the range of Rs.90-94. Averaging is not solution rater best tactic is to sacrifice 100 shares @ Rs.98 and make a few loss because then it will baffle your web trading platform and so price will starting going up and then you can send the balance 900 shares @Rs.102 or more within a week time

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheispatel
1 year ago

At 11 AM today when electricity power will be restored, small traders will see that stock market has come down so those fools will be tempted to buy more shares but they do not think that ihe price will go further down thereafter in the last hour today. Brokers like SBI securities and others will allow traders to buy shares but in the last minutes it disable their trading platform to not allow traders to sell at falling spree

– Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

We are worried that in connection with the upcoming April 15 anniversary that the DPRK may be tempted to take another provocative action. We obviously hope not, but we will be prepared.

– Kim Il

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There have been times when I have been tempted to break my Hippocratic oath, to put my patient first, because although I could save their life, they didn't have the ability to reimburse whoever had to pay for it. And what happens then is that the system goes bankrupt. You can't afford those services anymore. We can't have people who have given their life to healthcare being pulled in two directions because one party says you can't help that person. They're not in the system.

– Doctor Oz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't think there's any server who hasn't been tempted to quit, especially right now.

– Joshuah Morton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fed will not be tempted to rock the boat in terms of the recovery which is gathering some momentum. Raising rates or discussion on tapering would probably be counterproductive at this stage.

– Ross Norman

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

– Roger McGough

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

China and other governments may be tempted to invest in coal power to help their economies recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, this risks locking in high-cost coal power that will undermine global climate targets.

– Matt Gray

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

You cannot cross the borders of the soul without at least once be tempted to look back… There are worlds over there. They are calling you to turn your way… familiar faces, strangers, us who have knocked countless times at its gates and they were opened for us.

– Mariana Fulger

added by MF
3 years ago

If Thomas Gaffney had reached Thomas Gaffney hand towards a pocket or something where I thought that Thomas Gaffney might have had one of the guns that went away last night or the night before, then I might have been tempted to do that.

– Daniel McGown

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think they might be tempted to join us. It is clear that there are lots of elected politicians from lots of parties that want to join the League.

– Riccardo Molinari

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Skeptics would be tempted to downplay the significance of Yongbyon in favor of a more comprehensive roadmap for denuclearization, but if it's properly done, inspecting Yongbyon would have most of the necessary elements of a bigger deal.

– One South Korean official

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

So what Romans 13 might invite us to do is just ask what God might be doing with some particular leader, in the case of Donald Trump, I am tempted to say God might have been working to discredit the forces in evangelicalism that contributed so much to his being elected.

– Michael Rea

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Libya is a corrupt, fractured environment that offers many rewards to actors bent on evading political compromise and using brute force instead, others will feel excluded and tempted to conduct attacks and grab territory.

– Jalel Harchaoui

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Whenever I see someone’s Hydrocodone sitting there, Oxycodone sitting there I’m tempted to take it….and I have over the years.

– Rebecca Jones

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

We offered Jerry Seinfeld $ 5 million an episode, we went in there with a staggering sum and there was tremendous confidence that no one could walk away from it. Jerry Seinfeld came to me and said, ‘ I don’t have a life, I ’m not married, I don’t have kids. ’ We gave it everything we had, Jerry Seinfeld was tempted, but in the end it was a quality of life decision.

– Warren Littlefield

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Just to save 1 percent, some customers were earlier buying gold without receipts. With the 3-percent GST, now many more will be tempted to make unofficial purchases from small jewelers.

– Harshad Ajmera

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

#1. The man in front of you today is a mortician, The patient died on the operating table. If you think the patient should have lived, ask the surgeons. #2. I am here to jumpstart your mind from lethargy. #3. I believe you are familiar with carnal knowledge? The concept that is, not the practical part. Someone with experience? Legal experience you dirty minded fools! #4. The only difference between you and a cow is what I teach you. #5. Most women would prefer the sperm of a law professor to that of a law student. #6. We are not authorities in law. By ‘we’ I mean ‘you’. Some of you might be tempted to think that we are in the same category! #7. You call me Sir and I call you Sir. The only difference is that YOU will mean it while I don't! #8. Not even the devil knows what a man is thinking, leave alone a woman. #9. I agree with the Honourable Justice Kwach, that the legal profession is in danger of being infiltrated by peasants. #10. For the purposes of my lectures, all time will be in GMT and only my Swiss watch will apply. #11. If your female client is going to be convicted of murder, make sure she’s pregnant. Why are you laughing? Of course, I don’t mean that you should be the one making sure! #12. I radiate knowledge because I am in intellectual puberty and not intellectual menopause.

– Githu Muigai

added by anonymous
7 years ago

It's very important for Trump to bounce back strong. The sense of his inevitability is one of his strengths, if he looks weak, others will pile on and some may be tempted to leave him.

– David Yepsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Remembering our past can be a healthy exercise. We should yet beware of manipulations of our memory. By sticking to things that torment us, we can be tempted to brood over what should have, could have or would have been done.(no shoulda,coulda,woulda). When we walk down the memory lane, we learn from the past and pick for the present the fundamentals, which can be brought into play for the future. ("Walking down the memory lane" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

For those of you who are black and are tempted to ... be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling, i had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

– President John F. Kennedy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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