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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

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Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

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She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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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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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

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