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Desire Quotes
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"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."
-Albert Einstein
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
-Albert Einstein
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"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
-Mark Twain
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"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?"
-Mark Twain
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"If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough."
-Tom Krause
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"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
-William Blake
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"Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had."
-Aristotle
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"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
-Aristotle
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"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."
-Robert Frost
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"Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow."
-T. S. Eliot
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"Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."
-William Shakespeare
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"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed."
-Lao tzu
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"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires."
-Alexander Graham Bell
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
-Lois McMaster Bujold
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"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."
-Publilius Syrus
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"Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)."
-Cicero
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"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."
-Cicero
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"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life."
-Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied."
-Henry George
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
-Rebecca West
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"The wise man will love; all others will desire."
-Afranius
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"Desire creates the power."
-Raymond Holliwell
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"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."
-Brendan Francis
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"Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen."
-Marcia Wieder
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"Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you."
-Stephen Vizinczey
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"He who desires is always poor."
-Claudianus
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"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."
-John Cleese
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