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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. ↗

— Tacitus

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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

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Desire creates its own object. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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