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«Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.»
Author: J. Edgar Hoover
| About:
Bankers and banks
| Keywords:
attraction, Banks, irresistible, unearned
«Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.»
Author: Lewis Gannit
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Gardens
| Keywords:
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«Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.»
Author: Rene Konig
| About:
Fashion,
Sex
| Keywords:
ambivalent, critical, irresistible, mixture, Sex and, taboo, taboos, The Social, urges
«Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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act of God, bear on, bring to bear, definite, inexorable, irresistible, occasions, perform, physical ability, pressure, ruler, simplest
«Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.»
Author: Henry Ford
| About:
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
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«A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.»
«Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Body of, identical, industrial, industrial societies, industrial society, irresistible, junkie, junkies, junky, longings, mental image, Out of body experience, poignant, pollution, probe, probed, probes, probing, redemption, societies, The Celebration
«But such is the nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing irresistible»
«A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
irresistible, momentum, motion, Republican, slow motion
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