#desires

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. ↗

— Andy Grove

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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

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We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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