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en We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
  Oscar Wilde

en Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
  Oscar Wilde

en There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to
  Oscar Wilde

en Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers "Please will you do the job for me."
  C.S. Lewis

en It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

en We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

en The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
  Octave Mirbeau

en It's a real love story in an extreme situation, ... I was afraid of only one thing. I was afraid to offend the memory of survivors on Jewish people, which I respect so much.

en Joel is not afraid to let those two guys jump in when he doesn't see something. It's nice to see. It's not one guy controlling everybody. They're not puppets. They bring their input, and that's what makes coaches successful.

en These companies are going to be haunted by the memory of their own growth. There's going to be pressure from the investment community to find new ways to do that. The bigger you get, the harder it is to grow by 20 percent.

en Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

en Courage is doing what your afraid to do. There can be no courage unless your scared.

en I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
  William Butler Yeats

en The whole theme of the project is exquisite -- exquisite and expensive. His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. The whole theme of the project is exquisite -- exquisite and expensive.

en Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.


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