#desires

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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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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