#sire

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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If you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart ↗

— Deborah N. Kabwang

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...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it. ↗

— John Paul II

#life #love #p #life

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied. ↗

— Robert Wells

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I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results. ↗

— Omar Bongo

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We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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