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• No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.
  [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Church, Handsome

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• The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

  Alicia Keys

  Play, Dying, Four

  "Soul sister number one" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

  Taylor Schilling

  Loneliness, Struggle, Lucky

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• Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

  Shirley Manson

  Political, Together, Males

  "Garbage's Shirley Manson on getting the band back together and kissing major labels goodbye". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Men, Data, Goal

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• I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

  Adam Carolla

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Adam Carolla keeps political rants fast and loose". www.politico.com.

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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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• there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  May, Riches, Havens

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• But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

  Helen Waddell

  Mind, Flesh

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• ... was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Agony, White

  Helen Waddell (2013). “Peter Abelard”, p.88, Read Books Ltd

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• The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.

  Lucy Poate Stebbins

  Lying, Writing, Roots

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• [Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.

  Matilde Serao

  Passion, Winning, Blood

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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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• 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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• There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Thinking, Wicked, World

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

  Andrew Pyper

  Dark, Needs, Chaos

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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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• It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

  Laura Marling

  Want, Accepting Yourself, Hard

  Song: Rambling Man, Album: I Speak Because I Can, 2010

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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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