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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like. ↗

— Izabella Scorupco

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. ↗

— Beverly Sills

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A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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