"Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty."
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"We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence."
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"For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite."
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"Evolution leads the way through desire."
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"We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts."
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"Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you."
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"We go where our deepest desires take us."
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"When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies."
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"You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire."
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"Blaming the imperialists nowadays is obviously absurd, as is blaming the Americans, who obviously don't have the slightest desire to control anything in the Middle East. The American desire is to get out as quickly as possible and the general view is that now that the Cold War is over and the Soviets are no longer a problem, we have no reason to stay there, let's get out. They will have to confront their own problems. Israel provides a useful scapegoat but it's a limited one."
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"The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire."
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"It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!"
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"I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days."
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"Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?"
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"Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories."
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"I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious."
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"Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate."
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"Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective."
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"Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil."
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"The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires."
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