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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle | top
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. Roland Barthes | top
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The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. Charles Bent | top
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. Theodore Bikel | top
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. John Cassavetes | top
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. Coco Chanel | top
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Emile M. Cioran | top
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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. Robin G. Collingwood | top
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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. Robert Fortune | top
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What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both. Dick Gephardt | top
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. William Godwin | top
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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. Donna Karan | top
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I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready. William Kidd | top
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. Nelson Mandela | top
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. Larry McMurtry | top
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill | top
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I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire. Robin Morgan | top
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. Natalie Portman | top
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. Francois Rabelais | top
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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 | top
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. Patti Smith | top
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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. John Strachan | top
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. Booth Tarkington | top
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My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country. Charles Tupper | top
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. Fay Weldon | top