#desire

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#back #desire #forward #i #look

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ↗

— George Washington

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#desire #everything #includes #live #stimulates

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ↗

— Martha Graham

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