#sire

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. ↗

— John Dewey

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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. ↗

— John Doolittle

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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action pictures #desires #feed #go #into

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

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I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#country #desire #does #done #i

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#give-all #impulse #instinct #love #sacrifice

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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