#desire

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it. ↗

— John L. Phillips

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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. ↗

— John Pomfret

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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

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My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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