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Quote by Robert Orben
Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. – Robert Orben

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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee – or laugh. – Robert Orben

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Humor
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Robert Orben
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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success. – Robert Orben

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Graduation
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Self-Control
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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. – Franklin P. Jones

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Self-Control

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses. – Franklin P. Jones

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Self-Control

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Self-Control

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 19

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Self-Control

Random Quotes

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our countrys birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon. – John Linder

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Freedom

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything – but Im ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 oclock at night. – Katherine Heigl

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Change

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. – Henry Louis Gates

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Future

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. – Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666

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Gardens