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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Napoleon Hill Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mme de Stael The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Lin Yü-tang All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Mario Andretti Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
    Mario Andretti
    Italian-born American former racing driver (1940 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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