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• [Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.

  Ann Plato

  Spring, Book, Sleep

  Ann Plato (1988). “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry”, p.27, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Notorious, Increase, Desire To Live

  Charlas de Cafe

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• Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Drinking, Adversity

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• As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Men, Path

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.118, Ballantine Books

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• Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

  Jason Russell

  Humanity

  "Kony 2012 is about now - right now. Get with the programme!" by Charlie Skelton, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

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• A girl must allow others to share the responsibility for care, thus enabling others to care for her. She must learn how to care inways appropriate to her age, her desires, and her needs; she then acts with authenticity. She must be allowed the freedom not to care; she then has access to a wide range of feelings and is able to care more fully.

  Jeanne Elium

  Girl, Responsibility, Feelings

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• It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

  Alan Watts

  Important

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• Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, Want, Spirit

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• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  Marge Piercy

  Lying, Cat, Exercise

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.

  Vivian Gornick

  Giving Up, Pain, Fear

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• Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Mother, Children, Women

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden himself to look at. When one feels that everything that one had wanted to see has been revealed, 'obscenity' disappears, the taboo disappears as well, and there is a certain liberation.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Looks, Unbearable, Disappear

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• We must life the level of understanding both at home and abroad of what the free enterprise system is, what it is not, and how it benefits the people who live under it. We must somehow get these elementary truths across, not only to the people of other lands but to millions here at home who do not understand it, if we are to generate a powerful demand and desire for its retention.

  Philip D. Reed

  Powerful, Home, Land

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• The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Meaningful, Dream, Luxury

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Defects, Persons

  "Marilyn Yalom and the Language of Lovemarilyn Yalom and the Language of Love". Interview with Royal Young, October 23, 2012.

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• I don't have the desire that I think a lot of performers feel - to get the applause. It's not life or death for me. I love it and it's exciting, but it's not something I crave or miss, so I don't need to perform; I don't have that desire. I like to sing, and I love doing what I'm doing, but it's not a dire need.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Thinking, Missing, Needs

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

  Thomas Brooks

  Confused, Eye, Men

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• There are different types of art, and you just have to follow where things take you. It helps me with my desire to perform live. That's something that a lot of actors and actresses don't get to experience on a regular basis.

  Natasha Leggero

  Art, Different, Actors

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• I often get questioned about how we came up with the name Weebly. We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.

  David Rusenko

  Taken, Names, Trying

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• Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

  Charles Yu

  Nice, Simple, Suffering

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• Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Teacher, Should, Disciple

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

  John Ridley

  Children, Names, Movement

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

  Jet Black

  Bebop, Faces, Life Is

  "Fictional character: Jet Black". "Cowboy Bebop", www.imdb.com. 1998 - 2003.

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• He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Reality, Government, People

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