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Ephhemeral artifacts draw us into dawn-hued memories, reminding us that beauty resides in the journey of creation rather than the permanence of the object.
Author:
Elara Moonbridge
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In the ephemeral scriptures of desire, fleeting glances write various poems that language dare not capture.
Author:
Eloise Harper
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Inarticulate truths hold an awkward beauty, a gravity that pulls us near even as it escapes explanation, allowing think thoughts not yet breathed.
Author:
Aria Kaplan
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Within the quiet layers of conscious drift, one's essence dances, forging pathways not yet traveled while firmly grounded in reality.
Author:
Liana Mozart
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Dreaming brings us closer to our desires, both asleep and awake. Dare to translate those fantasies into reality.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Fear is awful and completes walls. Desire wishes around silken fires.
Author:
Norma Jeane - Marilyn Monroe
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or use them to your advantage.
Author:
Mother Monster - Lady Gaga
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Amidst the relentless whirlwind of distraction and change, it's in the restless pursuit of novelty that we invite resilience and clad the waning voyeurism of stability in the celebratory garb of metamorphosis.
Author:
Aria falconer
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Like threads of relentless intention, each culture sows its stories into a tapestry that connects hearts across the world.
Author:
Leo Curator
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I may not have everything I want, but I have everything I need...especially when it comes to snacks.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Success is not a one-time achievement, but a series of continuous efforts towards a goal.
Author:
Samantha Martinez
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The beauty of planning lies in the possibility of creating a future we desire.
Author:
Catherine Stone
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire
Author:
Lily Smith
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Our deepest desires are often disguised as our greatest fears.
Author:
Sophia Collins
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Life is a dance between what you desire and what you fear; finding the balance is where true liberation lies.
Author:
Jennifer Lopez
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What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
Author:
Don Zimmer
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.
Author:
John Yoo
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Author:
William Yeats
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Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
Author:
Wilbur Wright
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
Author:
William Wirt
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It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.
Author:
Kip Winger
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
Author:
William Wilson
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
Author:
E. Wilson
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
Author:
William Wiley
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Author:
Eli Whitney
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
Author:
George Whitefield
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Author:
Edmund White
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Author:
E. White
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My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Author:
Kim Weston
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
Author:
James Welch
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This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Author:
Noah Webster
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
Author:
Roger Waters
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Author:
George Washington
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I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.
Author:
Jim Walton
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I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
Author:
David Wallace
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
Author:
Richard Wagner
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Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Author:
Virgil
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Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Author:
Judith Viorst
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The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
Author:
William Vickrey
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I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
Author:
Conrad Veidt
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Author:
Raoul Vaneigem
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Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Author:
Bobby Unser
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I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Author:
Janine Turner
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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Author:
Janine Turner
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My desire is to walk with God every day.
Author:
Janine Turner
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My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Author:
Janine Turner
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Author:
Tanya Tucker
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Author:
Tanya Tucker
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I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Author:
Harry Truman
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Author:
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
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The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Author:
Thucydides
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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Author:
Johannes Tauler
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
Author:
Allen Tate
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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Author:
William Taft
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Author:
Tacitus
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Author:
Tacitus
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A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Author:
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Author:
Arthur Sulzberger
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Author:
Anne Sullivan
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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Author:
Meryl Streep
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
Author:
John Strachan
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
Author:
W. Stone
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Author:
W. Stone
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Author:
Richard Stoddard
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But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
Author:
Michael Stipe
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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Author:
Ben Stiller
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I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
Author:
Andrew Still
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
Author:
Saint Stephen
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Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
Author:
Richard Stallman
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Author:
Madame Stael
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Desire is the very essence of man.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Author:
Herbert Spencer
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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
Author:
John Sousa
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Always desire to learn something useful.
Author:
Sophocles
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Author:
Socrates
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
Author:
Tony Snow
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Author:
Patti Smith
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Author:
Adam Smith
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Author:
Jane Smiley
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Author:
Marsha Sinetar
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I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
Author:
Carly Simon
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I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.
Author:
Alicia Silverstone
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I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.
Author:
Ron Silver
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My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.
Author:
Luiz Silva
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Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
Author:
Luiz Silva
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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
Author:
Bill Shoemaker
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Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
Author:
Jenny Shipley
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It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Author:
Hu Shih
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I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
Author:
Ally Sheedy
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Author:
George Shaw
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Author:
George Shaw
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Author:
George Shaw
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I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
Author:
William Shatner
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My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Author:
Ravi Shankar
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
Author:
Ben Shahn
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We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.
Author:
Ernest Seton
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.
Author:
Compay Segundo
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I have no desire to carry a movie.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Author:
Walter Scott
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Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty.
Author:
Samuel Schmid
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
Author:
Terry Savage
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The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
Author:
Eisaku Sato
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It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
Author:
Eisaku Sato
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Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Author:
Edward Sapir
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The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Author:
Bobby Sands
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My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision.
Author:
Barry Sanders
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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
Author:
Victor Salva
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Author:
Sallust
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
Author:
Mikhail Saakashvili
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Author:
Rumi
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
Author:
Ludwig Rohe
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I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Author:
Dennis Rodman
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Author:
Adrienne Rich
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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Author:
Anne Rice
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
Author:
David Ricardo
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
Author:
Karel Reisz
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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Author:
Herbert Read
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Author:
Man Ray
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
Author:
Joseph Pulitzer
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Author:
Hugh Prather
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
Author:
John Pomfret
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Author:
Channing Pollock
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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
Author:
Michael Pollan
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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Author:
Plato
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How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
Author:
Robert Plant
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I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
Author:
John Phillips
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Author:
Petrarch
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Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Author:
Wilferd Peterson
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Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Author:
Sonny Perdue
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If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
Author:
Dave Pelzer
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
Author:
M. Peck
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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Author:
Ivan Pavlov
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Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
Author:
Coventry Patmore
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Author:
Walter Pater
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.
Author:
Giovanni Papini
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People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Author:
Joy Page
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Author:
William Osler
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It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man.
Author:
John Osborne
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It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.
Author:
Michael O'Donoghue
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What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
Author:
Ellen Ochoa
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
Author:
Ed O'Brien
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Author:
Barack Obama
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To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Author:
Joshua Norton
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I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!
Author:
Jeremy Northam
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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
Author:
Jeremy Northam
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Author:
Adela Nicolson
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
Author:
George Muller
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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
Author:
Daniel Moynihan
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
Author:
Akio Morita
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I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Author:
Maria Montessori
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Author:
Brian Molko
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Author:
Wilson Mizner
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Author:
Maria Mitchell
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I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
Author:
Rebecca Miller
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No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.
Author:
Nelson Miles
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Author:
Michelangelo
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Author:
Michelangelo
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Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Author:
Mencius
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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Author:
Norman McLaren
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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
Author:
Malcolm Mclaren
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Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
Author:
David McKay
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Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
Author:
John McEnroe
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I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
Author:
Will McDonough
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Author:
John McDonald
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My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Author:
Hattie McDaniel
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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.
Author:
Scott McClellan
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
Author:
John McCarthy
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We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
Author:
Catherine McAuley
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Author:
Jacques Maritain
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Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
Author:
Roger Maris
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Author:
Orison Marden
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The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Author:
Nigel Mansell
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Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Author:
Marya Mannes
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Author:
Horace Mann
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Author:
Horace Mann
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There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Author:
Ella Maillart
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We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
Author:
John Mahoney
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My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
Author:
Ida Lupino
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This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
Author:
Josh Lucas
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Author:
Gary Lucas
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Author:
Amy Lowell
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If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
Author:
James Longstreet
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Author:
John Locke
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
Author:
Titus Livius
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
Author:
Joseph Lightfoot
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.
Author:
Lisa Leslie
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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
Author:
Giacomo Leopardi
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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
Author:
Giacomo Leopardi
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My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.
Author:
Donna Leon
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Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.
Author:
Mario Lemieux
