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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? -- Douglas Coupland
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. -- Edith Wharton
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. -- Joseph Epstein
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter. -- Tom Robbins
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred. -- Peter Drucker
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust. -- Edward Abbey
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. -- Michael Pollan
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! -- David Mitchell
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. -- John Stott
I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. -- Warren Zevon
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. -- Oscar Wilde
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. -- Joseph Epstein
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. -- Reid Hoffman
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. -- Edith Wharton
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. -- Elizabeth Goudge
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. -- Samuel Butler
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. -- Martin Amis
Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God. -- Martin Luther
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins. -- Chuck Eddy
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. -- George Bernard Shaw
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope. -- Charles Dickens
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these 'sins' as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins. -- Anna Quindlen
Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going. -- Jamie Wyeth
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God. -- Richard M. Nixon
People come to me with their heads held high and announce that they do not eat sugar anymore, as though they have tackled one of life's deadly sins. My response is to ask them how long they have had this problem and if they have considered seeing a psychiatrist. -- Emily Luchetti
Of the seven deadly sins, anger has long been the one with the best box of costumes. When the guy in the next car rages at you, he's dangerous. When you rage at him, you're just. We can usually recognize the results of anger, especially in others, as destructive and evil. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from. -- Marilyn Manson
Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it's not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul. -- Rod Dreher
The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. -- Henry L. Stimson
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. -- John C. Maxwell
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart. -- John Ortberg
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. -- Dave Mustaine
With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff. -- Corey Taylor
Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins. -- Lester del Rey
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. -- Robert Breault
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. -- Robert Breault
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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