#sire

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. ↗

— William Law

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. ↗

— Oscar Levant

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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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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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren. ↗

— Henry Taylor

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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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