Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?"
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Urges
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Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"Your urge to control life controls you."
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person."
Hayao Miyazaki
Animator, Director
"Humans have both the urge to create and destroy."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Necessity urges desperate measures."
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"The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning."
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"I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else."
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"In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything."
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