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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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I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago. ↗

— Daniel Craig

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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.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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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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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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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. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

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