#desire

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#desire #man #need

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#enough #faith #then #you

I have no desire to play music unless I need music. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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