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• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

  Confucius

  Men, Doe, Superior Man

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.291

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• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

  Patrick Chan

  Care, Wells, My Own

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• Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

  Epictetus

  Body, Aversion, Action

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Children, Hate, Heart

  "Paris Talks". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá ("The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace," October 21, 1911), reference.bahai.org. 1912.

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• Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.

  David Byrne

  Character, Unique, Cities

  "New York State of Mind" by David Byrne, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Suffering, Fool, Poor

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.87, Weiser Books

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• It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.

  Tyrone Willingham

  Football, Successful, Loss

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• Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Expression, Joy, Needs

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• Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Modern Life, Want

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• A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Thinking, Two

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.759, Graphic Arts Books

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• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

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• I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Wise, Believe, Sheep

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• If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Nice, People, Soul

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• That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

  Elias Hicks

  Home, Light, Scripture

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.217

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• Choose to be entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then become the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

  John Gokongwei

  Jobs, Adventure, Opportunity

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• In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Influential, Individual, Institutions

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• It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Mean, Reality, Piano

  Genrikh Gustavovich Neĭgauz, Heinrich Neuhaus (1973). “The art of piano playing”, Longwood Pr Ltd

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• Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

  William Saroyan

  Baby, Men, Race

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, New Directions Publishing

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• God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.

  F.B. Meyer

  Believe, Doe, Spirit

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• Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

  Nahum Tate

  Mind, Great Minds, Cures

  Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate (1978). “Purcell, Didon et Enée”

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• No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

  Li Mu

  Growth, Resistance, Action

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• There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Arrogance, Sacred

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• In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

  John Welwood

  Soul, Feelings, Way

  John Welwood (1996). “Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship”, Harpercollins

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• The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  Morris Sullivan

  Revenge, Independent, Thinking

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• For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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