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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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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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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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