#desi

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

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The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

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With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences. ↗

— Guy Burgess

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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ↗

— Epicurus

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ↗

— Epicurus

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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. ↗

— Epicurus

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The desire to write grows with writing. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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