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• My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

  Robert Crais

  Struggle, Character, Adversity

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• The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Secret

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• Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

  Douglas Wilder

  Men, Racism, Black

  "The 'Bradley effect' and Obama" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I'm inspired by dreams and shadows, obsession and desire. By nature, I'm a dream collector and never stop working. I question people about their weirdest dreams and the strangest, most inexplicable experiences they've had. All this information whirls around in my mind, and new dreams emerge that form the seeds of stories and novels.

  Storm Constantine

  Dream, People, Mind

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• I have a new name for pain.
  What's that?
  The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape.
  A good name, then.

  Christopher Paolini

  Strong, Pain, Animal

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1078, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

  David Ogilvy

  Education, Men, Creation Of Man

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• Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  World, Stuff, Factories

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.

  Will Smith

  Dream, Character, Odds

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

  John Lydon

  Song, Energy, Burning

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Thinking, Dancing

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spring, Fall, Focus

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ambition, Reality, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

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• It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.

  Max Scheler

  Evil, Criticism, Doe

  Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Misery, Certainty, Incapable

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.136, Letcetera Publishing

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Camouflage

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

  Henry George

  Men, Law, Political

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How slow
  This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
  Like to a stepdame, or a dowager,
  Long withering out a young man's revenue.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Men, Long

  William Shakespeare (2017). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Tolerance, Humanity, May

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1997). “The Inner Life”, p.92, Shambhala Publications

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• If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

  Ansel Adams

  Done, Crafts, Homework

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• I couldn't give you a count of the number of single women I have in our congregation that are serving in very significant ways in the community. Our desire is for them to live all of life to the glory of God whether God calls them to be a wife or a mother or not.

  Ligon Duncan

  Mother, Numbers, Giving

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• When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Doe, Needs, Kind

  Iris Murdoch (1961). “Under the Net: A Novel”

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• Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.

  Sonia

  Needs, Absolute Certainty, Turns

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• The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

  Bruno Dumont

  Girl, Fighting, Men

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• I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mentor, Guru, Motivated

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