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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today. ↗

— Walter Lang

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I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right. ↗

— Frank Langella

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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. ↗

— Tom Lantos

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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

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I don't design clothes, I design dreams. ↗

— Ralph Lauren

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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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