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• Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

  Alec-Tweedie

  People, Actors, Way

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• To want is more than to attain.

  Georgiana Goddard King

  Ambition, Want

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• One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.

  Matilde Serao

  Winning, Gambling, Challenges

  Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli

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• The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

  Lydia Lunch

  Powerful, Greed, Way

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• Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Self, Practice, Want

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  History, Levels, Thirst

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• NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Mean, Skills

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• If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

  Aristotle

  Would Be, Goes On, Sake

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1729, Princeton University Press

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• Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

  Aristotle

  Men, Unions, Action

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Men, Law

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• The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, Thinking, Our World

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• I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mean, Emotional, Addiction

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• [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Principles, Doe

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.24, Wordsworth Editions

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• The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Soul, Special

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

  Marah Ellis Ryan

  Pain, Heart, Long

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• Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.

  Martha Roth

  Sex, Boundless

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• From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  War, People, Effort

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• I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, May, Mass

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.292

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• A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Men, Imagination

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• Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Ambition, Hunting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Tasks, Fundamentals

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• Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Doe, Needs

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• Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

  Anatole France

  Girl, Regret, Past

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• While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Writing

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Fulfillment, Inadequacy

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