"I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods."
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"For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?"
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"In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond."
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"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?"
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"No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise."
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"I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am."
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"We believe easily what we fear of what we desire"
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"It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires."
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"I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied."
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"I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
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"Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments."
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"While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."
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"You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death."
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"Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification."
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"There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage."
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"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were."
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"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."
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"She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire."
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"Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost."
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"Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?"
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