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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ↗

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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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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. ↗

— Walter Scott

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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. ↗