attraction

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An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.

The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money. J. Edgar Hoover

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. Oscar Wilde

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Henry Ward Beecher

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! Aristophanes

Without wine, even beautiful cherry blossoms have small attraction. Japanese Proverb

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