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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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• A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for - rewards often grafted onto genetically programmed desires.A person who cannot override genetic instructions when necessary is always vulnerable..The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Long, Rewards, Vulnerable

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• Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

  Charles Hodge (1874). “Soteriology, eschatology”, p.692

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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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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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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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• People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, Giving

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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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• Boredom is desire seeking desire.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boredom, Seeking

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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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• Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

  Tony Robbins

  Life Is

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• I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Thinking, Demand

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• One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lonely, Earthquakes, Waiting

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• The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.

  Leon Trotsky

  Party, Differences, Tests

  Leon Trotsky (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.605, Haymarket Books

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Needs, Pieces

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• I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

  Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Longing, Longing For Death, Loses

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• There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

  Karen Essex

  World, Entanglement, Agree

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• We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark

  Strong, Justice, Feelings

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark (2011). “The Ox-Bow Incident”, p.30, Modern Library

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• Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Fire, Wheels, Environment

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• The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self.

  Mooji

  Self, Play, Ideas

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• [T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

  Michel Foucault

  Simple, Thinking, Law

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.81, Vintage

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• The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Jobs, People, Google

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• America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

  Karen Russell

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

  Sarah MacLean

  Heart, Romance, Taught

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• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Islam, Ancient, Versions

  "'I Watched a Man Stabbed in a London Street - and Felt Nothing'". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2013.

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