"The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
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"All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite."
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"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."
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"Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content."
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"Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem."
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"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears."
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"Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring."
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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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"Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model."
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"We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food."
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"For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act."
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"The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime."
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"Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."
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"Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already."
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"Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man."
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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
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"Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired."
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"Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good."
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"Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect."
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"To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires."
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