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

Other quotes by Robert Orben

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben

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Society
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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? – Robert Orben

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Election Day
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Washington is a place where politicians dont know which way is up and taxes dont know which way is down. – Robert Orben

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Government
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Other Quotes from
Self-Control
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The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Self-Control

And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Self-Control

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. – Vida D. Scudder

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Self-Control

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. – Bob Moawad

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Self-Control

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