#desire

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

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It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. ↗

— Jacques Delors

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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. ↗

— Democritus

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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. ↗

— Philip Guston

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In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? ↗

— Philip Guston

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