#desire

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. ↗

— Janine Turner

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I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need. ↗

— Jim Walton

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Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records. ↗

— Roger Waters

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ↗

— E. B. White

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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 feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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