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• One of the most potent weapons of the evil inclination in the last century has been novelty.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• One of the devices of the evil inclination is to turn our attention away from the present by heightening our anticipation of the future.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• One has reached a high point in his moral development when he comes to regard it as “immature” to submit to the evil inclination.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Often the best answer to the to the evil inclination is not “No!” but “Maybe.”

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Just as the evil inclination causes evil to seem attractive to us, it causes good to seem repulsive to us.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• It is foolhardy to think of the evil inclination as something which occasionally assails us. We are its very habitation!

  Shraga Silverstein

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• inclination, there is no such thing as losing a battle to win the war. The battle is the war.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• At times, the evil inclination is so strong that it seems a sin not to satisfy it, and, of course, not wanting to sin, we give it satisfaction.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• I have no inclination to seek attention.

  Sir John McLeod Scarlett

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• Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

  George Saunders

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• That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you’ll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

  Beth Henley

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• I would also argue… that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small ‘l’ liberals, we Canadians.

  Dalton McGuinty

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• Lives are changed by a moment’s listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

  George A. Smith

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• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  Edmund Burke

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• If you’re hit with a lawsuit that’s untrue and the reasons you’re hit with it aren’t clear to you, there’s a very big inclination on people’s part to want to take responsibility for it – that this must be happening because I’m a terrible person, I did something, and I’m getting repaid for it.

  Sean Young

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• Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

  Evangelista Torricelli

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• I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don’t have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

  Christine Baranski

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