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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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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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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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Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ↗

— John Milton

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