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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. ↗

— Sitting Bull

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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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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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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects. ↗

— George Ripley

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By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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