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Tag Name "Succumb" (72)

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DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
Ambrose Bierce
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I'd like to stay in New York for a little while. My friend gave me the best advice. She said, Don't succumb to L.A. Wait until you have nothing to lose. Her exact words were, It will make mincemeat of your soul..
Leven Rambin
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
Audre Lorde
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To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.
Marianne Williamson
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Blaise Pascal
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Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.
Mark Steyn
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Carl Jung
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
Catherynne M. Valente
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My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.
Noam Chomsky
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If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.
David Limbaugh
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Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
Og Mandino
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
Erica Jong
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Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
Peter Elbow
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I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: Am I a dishonest player? - for he is willing to succumb.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Turkey has put up a fight against the powerful nations of the world. The crusader mentality attacked us abroad. Inside, their lackeys attacked us. We didn't succumb. As a nation, we stood strong.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.
Robert K. Massie
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Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
Sally Ride
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A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
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The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
Stephen Batchelor
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You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.
Jeaniene Frost
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If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.
John Assaraf
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