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• Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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• Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England’s peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

  Bernhard von Bulow

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• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

  Francesco Petrarca

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• Growth is kinda built into everyone’s genes. It’s built into management’s genes, the salesman’s genes, the investors’ desires. People expect companies to grow.

  Andrew Grove

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• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  Gary Carter

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• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

  Saint Aurelius Augustine

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• If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one’s desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  Xunzi

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  Tags in Desires, Conforms, Approve

• Folly enlarges men’s desires while it lessens their capacities.

  Robert South

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• Our visions begin with our desires.

  Audre Lorde

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• When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

  Azar Nafisi

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• What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

  Bob Dylan

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• Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

  Bertrand Russell

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• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  Nagarjuna

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• I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

  Clint Eastwood

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  Tags in Pessimism, Desires, Forge, Want, Lies

• If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ‘em.

  Yogi Berra

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  Tags in Athlete, Desires, Want, Celebrity, People

• They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

  Pierre Corneille

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• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  Abu Bakr

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• If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

  Clint Eastwood

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  Tags in Desires, Want

• Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

  Thomas Mann

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  Victor Hugo

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