"I have no desire to make windows into men's souls."
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"Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?"
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"But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account."
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"Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it."
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
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"The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings."
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"I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity."
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"Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear"
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"Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good."
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"I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting."
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"Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more."
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"I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them."
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"The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed."
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"In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence."
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"Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires."
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"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."
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"When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself."
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"Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
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