#desire

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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If you desire many things, many things will seem few. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

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We're way too much the same person, Larry. I mean, you know, way too much the same person. We have basically the same attitudes, desires, drives. And we see ourselves the same way. ↗

— Jim Lampley

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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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