"Desire presses ever forward unsubdued."
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"If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others."
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"At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right."
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"There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition"
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"It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak."
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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
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"Most people have desires that are great and they want to do great things, and they don't want to be negative people or they don't want to live in pessimistic attitudes, but the problem is a lot of them were not given the right tools. They were not given the right blueprint of how to build a building."
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"Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions."
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"Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind."
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"Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man."
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"So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight."
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"You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it."
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"Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear."
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"I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it."
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"The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he becomes unfit for slavery, the master will no longer desire to hold him as a slave."
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"What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?"
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"A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems."
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"He who does not desire power is fit to hold it."
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"The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind."
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"If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself."
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