#desire

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

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Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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The desire to really compete again has been there for a long time. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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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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I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

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