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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

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If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power. ↗

— Preston Brooks

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Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience. ↗

— Curt Siodmak

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