"Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?"
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away."
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"Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything."
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"If your desire is for good, the people will be good."
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"He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way."
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"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."
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"People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves."
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"Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real."
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"Live contemplating the body through mindfulness. Live contemplating feelings. In this way you will be aware of and control wrong desires."
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"Live joyfully, without desire."
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"The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom."
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"If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them."
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"The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful."
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"Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us."
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"I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely."
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"Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness."
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"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."
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"I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends."
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"The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power."
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