"When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life."
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"For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety."
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"You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task."
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"I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness."
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"Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion."
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"Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred."
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"We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason."
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"To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned"
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"Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit."
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"He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires."
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"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
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"Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time."
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"Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
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"A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn."
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"Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!"
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"There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome."
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"A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method."
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"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."
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"One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires."
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"Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him."
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