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Leo Tolstoy
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Cicero
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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
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William Blake
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Matthew Boulton
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We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.
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Lao Tzu
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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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John Milton
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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
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Dylan Thomas
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires.
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Rebecca West
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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Aristotle
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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
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Kahlil Gibran
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
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Brave conquerors! for so you are, That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires.
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Sigmund Freud
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Alec Waugh
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.
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Samuel Smiles
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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
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Virginia
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Grard Depardieu
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings.
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William Hazlitt
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Eric Butterworth
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Andrew Schneider
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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
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Helen Merrell Lynd
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Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
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Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin
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I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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Frank Herbert
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Aristotle
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I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
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Henry George
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
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Elijah Wood
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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Johann von Goethe
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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Anna Louise Strong
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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Lao Tzu
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
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Barry Hoffman
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???Dali and other surrealists manipulate and distort the mundane actuality of the world we live in to reveal the imagined world of our hidden desires. With different goals and different motives, this is exactly the conceptual space where advertising is most
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Homer
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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
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Bertrand Russell
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Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
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Albert Einstein
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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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Saint Augustin
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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
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Plato
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The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
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Albert Einstein
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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He who desires is always poor.
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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
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The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
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Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?
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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
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Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
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One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
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"And binding with briars, my joys and desires." Garden of Love
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
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"May all your desires be granted at once." -Ancient Chinese curse
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"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence." -- Blake
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"Their deaths perfectly expressed my deepest desires."
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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated o
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"Liberty consists in doing what one desires." -- Mill
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"May all your desires be granted at once." -- Persian Curse
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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"No man is a hypocrite in his desires." -- Johnson
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
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It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychologic
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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to the
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There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed.
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"Whatever one desires most one dreams about."
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Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.
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