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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

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Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

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The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

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