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Desires

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Old Would

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Values Willing

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

- Ai Weiwei

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Confident May

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

- Alec Waugh

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Soul Really

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

- Alison Moyet

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Blessed Emotions

If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.

- Amanda de Cadenet

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Want Becoming

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

- Andy Garcia

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Over Overcomes

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

- Aristotle

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Means Increased

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

- Aristotle

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Other Increasingly

As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.

- Aslaug Magnusdottir

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Own Everybody

Everybody has their own desires.

- Chauncey Billups

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Questions Emotions

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

- Chauncey Wright

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Real Shortcuts

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

- Colin Wilson

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Same Loves

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.

- Costa Ronin

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Blind Your

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

- David Seabury

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Which Equally

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

- Johannes Tauler

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Desire Other

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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Education Will

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

- John Ruskin

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Age Old

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

- Jonathan Swift

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Hearts Manifest

To manifest your hearts desires you must be what your heart desires.

- Joy Page

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Living Everybody

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

- Juan Pablo Galavis

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Visions Our

Our visions begin with our desires.

- Audre Lorde

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Peace Lies

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

- Ben Hecht

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Work Small

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

- Irving Babbitt

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Almost Wants

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

- Carolyn See

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Soul Living

As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.

- Catherine of Siena

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Horizon Expand

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

- James Russell Lowell

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Same Now

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

- Jay Asher

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Big Rule

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

- Douglas Horton

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Born Created

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

- Jerry Falwell

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Desire Vice

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Will Enabling

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

- Edwin Louis Cole

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Dogs Satisfied

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

- Elisabetta Canalis

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Strength Dwell

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

- Everett Dirksen

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Thirst Your

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

- Klaus Kinski

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Understanding

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

- Friedrich August von Hayek

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Desire Boredom

Boredom: the desire for desires.

- Leo Tolstoy

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Go For It Go

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

- Gloria Estefan

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Though Meant

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

- Mike Yaconelli

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Childish Harbor

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

- Mikhail Bakunin

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King Over

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?

- Thomas Becket

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More Separate

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

- Mikhail Sholokhov

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Performing Which

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

- Samuel Smiles

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Peace Prepare

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Driven Period

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

- Todd Gitlin

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Dangerous Sources

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

- Natan Sharansky

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Thought Motives

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

- Raymond Holliwell

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More Doubts

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

- Natsuki Takaya

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Art Over

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

- Noah Taylor

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Plans Other

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

- Sitting Bull

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Deepest Deadliest

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

- Socrates

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Stress Appears

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

- Srikumar Rao

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Own Put

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

- Robert Baden-Powell

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Own His

Every coach desires to bring in his own support staff.

- Virender Sehwag

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Beauty Death

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

- Wallace Stevens

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Work New

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

- Paracelsus

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Men Folly

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

- Robert South

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Own Always

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

- Susan B. Anthony

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Individual Felt

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

- Rosa Parks

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