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• It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

  Dale Carnegie

  Book, Law, Names

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Expression, Wish, May

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• Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Evil, Entertainment, Kind

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• I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Patriotic, Fate

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• [As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

  Nora Roberts

  Discipline, Missing, Three

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• The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

  Carl Sagan

  Reality, Astrology, Profound

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• I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.

  Dominique Browning

  Different, Agendas, Cherish

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• The desire for true happiness
  is nothing to feel ashamed about.

  Thanissaro Bhikkhu

  True Happiness, Ashamed, Feels

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• The world may not applaud us for wiping running noses, driving in carpools, or talking with our teenager into the wee hours of the morning. And until they are trained, our children might not thank us either. But as we set aside our own selfish desires and glorify God by joyfully serving our children, we are pursuing true greatness according to the Bible. Let us do so with tenderness, affection, and with a smile!

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Running, Morning, Children

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• A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

  Anuj

  Men, Worry, Losing

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• There are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

  Rick Santorum

  Passion, People, Want

  "Raw Data: Excerpts of Santorum's AP Interview". www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2003.

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• In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

  Sarada Devi

  Roots, Suffering, Causes

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 369), 2004.

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• It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

  Beau Willimon

  Ambition, Thinking, Games

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• Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

  Rod Stryker

  Obstacles, Inspired, Life Is

  "Spiritual vs. Material Fulfillment: Who Says You Can’t Have Both? (Part II)" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2011.

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• Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

  Joyce Meyer

  Regret, Action, Distress

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• It's not easy, being the best at what he does but still having the humility and desire to be close to those around him. In private, Messi is a great leader, a great captain. Usually the best in any area see things differently but in this case Leo is still an ordinary person and that makes our relationship work. He's the leader of ARG, he has helped us to reach two finals in one year. I have great respect for Messi the person and player.

  Javier Mascherano

  Humility, Player, Years

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• I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust. It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no grounds for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God, etc.

  Lionel

  Lust, Literature, Etc

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• To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Destiny, Quality, Achieve

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• All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.

  Paul Eluard

  Dream, Errors, Imagination

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Book, Wish

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• Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Objectivity, Creating, Evil

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• In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ends

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• All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ohio, Cities, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.133, Bantam Classics

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• An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Attitude, Believe, Thinking

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• Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Dread, Surround

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