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Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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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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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. ↗

— John McDonald

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ↗

— Rosa Parks

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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. ↗

— Petrarch

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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ↗

— Plato

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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet. ↗

— Rachael Ray

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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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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