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

— Thomas Mann

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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ↗

— Rosa Parks

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

— Petrarch

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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. ↗

— David Seabury

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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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