#sire

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

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For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim. ↗

— Joshua Jackson

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A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal. ↗

— William Jay

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. ↗

— Walter Scott

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It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that. ↗

— Guy Johnson

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With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. ↗

— Guy Johnson

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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it. ↗

— William Kidd

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You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge. ↗

— Jerry Kleczka

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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else. ↗

— John Lasseter

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