Quotes 421 till 436 of 436.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
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The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
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The excessive desire of pleasing goes along almost always with the apprehension of not being liked.
Introductio ad Prudentiam II (1740) 178 -
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit -
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
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