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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson
Love
Today
Thoughts
Revenge
Enemies
Compassion
Mercy
Our
Minds
Rather
Returned
May
To Love
Might
Succumb
Right
Violence
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Miroslav Volf
Work
Business
Marriage
People
Way
High
Fraud
Moral
Scholarly
Infidelity
Committed
Different
Plagiarism
Succumb
Standards
Even
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
Teacher
Me
Science
Girl
Parents
Encouragement
Whatever
Ran
Counselor
Never
Stereotype
Boy
Got
Lot
Friends
Did
Succumb
Reason
Who
In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later.
Charlie Sykes
Personality
Own
Conservatives
Later
Obama
Only
Adulation
Cult
Years
Left
Eight
Barack
Barack Obama
Succumb
Ridiculed
Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
Dambisa Moyo
War
Corruption
Culture
Negative
Poverty
Society
Our
Says
Idea
Because
Proud
Africa
African
Succumb
Many
Things
Images
Need
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
Business
Financial
Fears
Long
Pour
Building
Earnings
Markets
Financial Markets
Pressures
Out
Long-Term
Term
Executive
Chief
Chief Executive
Officers
Expense
Energies
Boards
Produce
Succumb
Companies
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
Jamie Farr
Broadway
Performer
Stereotypical
Because
Does
Refuse
Hollywood
Succumb
Things
The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.
Josh Fox
Love
Faith
Great
People
Great Deal
First
Lost
Greed
Sense
Pessimist
Rage
Destroying
Out
Solution
Had
Frenzy
Without
Deal
Always
Line
Succumb
Figure
Things
When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages. It's really a fascinating character study in the exploration of the human psyche.
Laurie Holden
Character
Natural
World
Others
Characters
Embrace
Some
Born
Emerging
More
Higher
Primal
Leaders
Study
Forced
Selves
Survive
Psyche
Human
Transform
To Survive
Really
Exploration
Succumb
Human Psyche
Fascinating
Base
Basically
Savages
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa
Silence
World
Hardships
Nation
Past
Sympathy
State
Invading
Crossed
Brutal
Had
Mere
Over
Armies
Force
Polish
Were
Sovereign
Sovereign State
Frontiers
Experienced
Which
Centuries
Succumb
Many
Belong
We inhabit a world where we're taught that we can have what we desire, and tend to act on it - the least we can do is admit to it when we succumb to our instincts.
Mariella Frostrup
World
Our
Admit
Tend
Instincts
Least
Taught
Where
Inhabit
Act
Succumb
Desire
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly
Time
Good
You
Yourself
Will
Face
Good Time
Control
Think
Thinking
Cold
Panic
Latex
Bit
Frankly
Mentally
Had
Covered
Your
Succumb
Start
My father has taught me not to succumb to nihilism, and my mother has taught me the value of hard work and determination.
Michael Tubbs
Work
Hard Work
Me
Determination
Mother
Father
Value
Nihilism
Taught
Hard
Succumb
The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
Mike Myers
Beautiful
You
Pressure
Looking
Tells
Like
Message
Accept
Movie
Should
Succumb
Who
Media
I'm looking forward to the time they describe me as the former president. And, of course, there are pressures from my own party and other Sudanese parties also, and I succumb to those pressures, but I hope as soon as possible I can find an exit out of this.
Omar al-Bashir
Hope
Time
Me
Looking
Party
Own
Other
President
Those
Pressures
Out
Possible
Find
My Own
Soon
Parties
Also
Looking Forward
Course
Exit
Former
Succumb
Forward
Describe
When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
Rachel Zoe
Good
You
People
Trend
Good People
Out
Never
Catalog
Stepped
Like
Look
Should
Succumb
Interpret
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
Simon Van Booy
Day
World
Matter
Will
Every
Resort
One Day
Visit
Parent
Sophisticated
How
Cultured
Child
Walt
Walt Disney
Disney
Succumb
All our compatriots know that the loss of Mongolia would mean the demise of our country. We would rather resist Russia and die heroically than succumb to Russia and perish shamefully.
Sun Yat-sen
Country
Our
Would
Russia
Rather
Demise
Know
Perish
Loss
Than
Die
Mean
Succumb
Resist
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
You
Creative
Pressure
Minute
Outside
Cease
Succumb
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
Rand Paul
Love
Time
History
You
Liberty
Fear
Cause
Will
Nation
Waver
Hesitate
Those
Must
Rise
Perhaps
Occasion
Forgetfulness
Nations
The History Of
Lovers
Succumb
Who
Even