#desire

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ↗

— John Ruskin

#child #desires #disgraced #dislikes #education

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

— Bertrand Russell

#indignation #our #submission #thoughts

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#broad #consensus #desire #developed #into

A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there. ↗

— James Longstreet

#blame #cause #desire #go #help

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#allowed #between #capital #commerce #countries

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#desires #economics #first #insatiable #macs

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives