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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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There is no greater crime than desire.

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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

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Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

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The Tao is infinite, eternal. Why is it eternal? It was never born; thus it can never die. Why is it infinite? It has no desires for itself; thus it is present for all beings. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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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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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

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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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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus.

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.

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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

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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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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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