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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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Philosopher
Action
Every Man
Mind
Motive
Within
Act
Annihilate
Desires
Him
Nor
Passions
Principle
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There are very few parts, and very few scripts, that acknowledge women as sexual beings, or simply just recognise that women have desires.
Rasika Dugal
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Acknowledge
Recognise
Scripts
Desires
Sexual
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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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Writer
Iran
Desires
Returned
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Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Writer
Inevitable
Limitation
Aspirations
Good Power Always
Power Good Always
Desires
Fulfill
Showing
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
Booth Tarkington
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Novelist
Female
Rebuke
Safe
Male
Desires
Scornful
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I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
Jim Gaffigan
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Comedian
Acting
Actors
Desire
Feeding
Desires
Always Acting Never
Planned
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Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.
Sheena Iyengar
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Professor
Art
Appreciate
Assessment
Appreciating
Balancing
Choosing
Desires
Hopes
Limitations
Possibilities
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The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
Rupert Murdoch
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Business Person
Aspirations
Desires
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Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
Myles Munroe
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Author
Dream
Chance
Human Heart
Poorest
Cries
Desires
Fulfill
Same Thing
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All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
Alija Izetbegovic
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Politician
Denial
Materialistic
Needs
Religious
Spiritual
Biological
Desires
Either
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Little kids definitely have desires and jealousy. There are some emotions that don't show up at birth, but by three or four, they are all there.
Pete Docter
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Film Director
Jealousy
Birth
Definitely
Desires
Emotions
Little Kids
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Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Colin Wilson
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Writer
Criminals
Desire
Driven
Mess
Real
Shortcuts
Desires
Disastrous
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard
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Writer
Answers
Disappoint
Disappointment
Giving
Heartache
Satisfaction
Always Never Something
Desires
Expectation
Gives
Meet
Thoroughly
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
Annie Besant
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Member Of The London School Board
Accurate
Country
Judging
Past
Future Knowledge Past
Judge
Desires
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Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.
Todd Haynes
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Film Director
Experiments
Thrilling
Desires
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Historian
Men
Simple
Yield
Desires
Trick
Readily
Suffer
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Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
Debbie Ford
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Author
Acknowledge
Insatiable
Surface
Waiting
Authentic
Beneath
Claim
Desires
Patiently
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Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
Debbie Ford
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Author
Behavior
Outdated
Release
Stuck
Beliefs
Desires
In The Past
Let Go
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In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.
Parvesh Cheena
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Character Actor
Dancer
Desire
Ideas
Desires
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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
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Family
Determined
Opposite
Face
Arranger
Bouquet
Flowers
Desires
Direction
Opposite Direction
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I feel I've been faithful to my convictions and my desires. I've taken small, firm steps and I try to do things as beautiful and artistically as I can.
Natalia Lafourcade
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Faithful
Firm
Steps
Convictions
Desires
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosopher
Desire
Existentialism
Refuse
Sin
Soul
Whole
Sure
Deliver
Desires
Infect
Longer
Satisfy
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
Jeremy Taylor
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Author
Men
Desire
Impatience
Thinking
Condition
Desires
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I'm interested in how we can put political principles into practice in our personal lives and the limits of theory when it comes to our desires and needs.
Sally Rooney
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Principles
Desires
Personal Lives
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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
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Author
Anticipation
Capable
Intense
Performing
Possibility
Reality
Itself
Desires
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We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.
Bill Irwin
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Actor
Lightning
Primal
Desires
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We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.
Townsend Harris
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Diplomat
Country
Desire
Japan
Other Countries
Welfare
Ambassador
Desires
Promote
Sent
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What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.
George Saunders
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Writer
Desire
Oneself
Powerful
Stranger
Desires
Finds
Powerful Thing
Strangers
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Bill Watterson
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Author
Life
Positive
Desire
Needs
Stand
Desires
Discover
Passively
Unfulfilled
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One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Writer
Amusement
Authority
Obedience
Desires
Duties
First Place
Place
Orders
Scout
Second
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Robert Collier
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Author
Contradictory
Different Directions
Equal
Force
Horse
Moving
Opposing
Two
Desires
Directions
Horses
Maintain
Ride
Sets
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
Roger Ebert
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Film Critic
Desire
Needs
Noble
People
Action Pictures
Feed
Desires
Pictures
Preexisting
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh
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Novelist
Men
Applause
Doubt
Indifferent
Praise
Support
Confident
Desires
Doubting
Quit
Reassured
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When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.
Joyce Meyer
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Author
Jesus
Christ
Desire
Jesus Christ
Want
Begins
Desires
Enter
Personal Relationship
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When it's supposed to be, when it's the right thing. I have a very strong opinion about things and what works best for me in terms of manifesting my desires.
Catherine Oxenberg
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Right Thing
Desires
Manifesting
The Right Thing
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
Tao Okamoto
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Model
Frustrated
Modeling
Desires
Medium
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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.
Andy Grove
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Businessman
Desire
Genes
Growth
Investors
Management
People
Salesman
Growth Grow People
Desires
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The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?
Thomas Becket
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Saint
Clergy
Taken
Banished
Neck
Desires
Possessions
Sword
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Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
Nellie Mckay
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Singer-Songwriter
Cerebral
Communicate
Desire
Needs
Subconscious
Accessible
Desires
Medium
Sentient
Shared
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Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone.
Mike Posner
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Singer
Ambiguous
Just Be Yourself
Zone
Work Yourself Your
Work Yourself Be Yourself
Be Yourself
Desires
Just Be
Upfront
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Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.
Mikhail Sholokhov
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Common Interests
Population
Sections
Bind
Desires
Vast
Separate
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Ambitious
Arise
Assurance
Extremity
Forbearance
Quietness
Days
Desires
Passed
Recall
Root
Thou
Thy
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel Alexander
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Philosopher
Cold
Degrees
Desire
Expectations
Filled
Warm
Desires
Expectation
Interval
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I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'
Ashley Graham
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Model
God Faith Believe
Desires
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I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
Antony Gormley
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Sculptor
Art
Desire
Distinction
Thinking
Somewhat
Desires
Reject
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
P. C. Cast
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Author
Dream
Careers
Desire
Paper
Scared
Your Dreams
Author
Desires
Fantasies
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Desire
Greatness
People
Decade
Desires
Perceiving
Possess
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Seeing clients as people with goals and desires helps you to understand their perspective, animating their existence beyond a line item in a sales pipeline report.
Rana El Kaliouby
/
Clients
Pipeline
Animating
Report
Desires
Item
Sales
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I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
Shirley Maclaine
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Film Actress
Childlike
Desire
Dimensions
Mean
Wonder
Desires
Experiences
Speaking
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American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
Alex Pareene
/
Big Business
Constituents
Groups
Rich
Represent
Desires
Politicians
Interests
Primarily
Responsive
Solely
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