"It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science."
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"Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear."
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"It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."
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"I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death."
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"Desire and dedication are everything!"
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"The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone."
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"Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly."
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"I desire only Him and to be wholly His."
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"When you stop needing more of everything, more of what you desire seems to arrive in your life."
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
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"The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist."
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"Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action."
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"Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire."
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"He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!"
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"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."
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"It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement"
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"Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire."
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"The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour."
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"Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams."
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"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"
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