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• Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Desire, Tuberculosis, Buchenwald

  CBS radio broadcast from Buchenwald, www.lib.berkeley.edu. April 15, 1945.

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• Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate—do you hear me? no man may start—the use of physical force against others.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Long, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.108, Penguin

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• I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, People, Wish

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.337, University of Chicago Press

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• If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.

  Isaac Barrow

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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• To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Integrity, Thinking

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• When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Long, Tree

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• We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

  Orhan Pamuk

  New York, Heart, Color

  Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life: A Novel”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Reading, Biblical

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• I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Wings, Desire, Too Late

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• Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

  Terry Brooks

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Terry Brooks (2002). “The Sword of Shannara Trilogy”, p.429, Del Rey

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• That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

  Robin Hobb

  Government, Desire, Needs

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.140, Spectra

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• Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Mother, Children

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• I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen

  Rene Descartes

  Desire, Unseen, Motto

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• Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Children, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2014). “Memoirs of a Revolutionist”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Choices, Design, Desire

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Heart, Desire

  George W. Bush's State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2004.

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• I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Life And Death, Desire, Dies

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.110, Zed Books

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• Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love Life, Men, Order

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Desire, Notorious, Increase

  Charlas de Cafe

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• We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Vanity, Hypocrisy

  Blaise Pascal (1910). “Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”

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• I want to live faster, faster, faster! ... I fear that this desire to live always at high pressure is the presage of a short existence. Who knows?

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Desire, Want, Pressure

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

  Fanny Burney

  Long, Age, Desire

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Desire

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Simple, Light

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