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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
Count
Brave
Desire
Victory
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There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.
Buddha
Mind
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Fear
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xunzi
Desire
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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Shadow
Death
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Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.
Steve Jobs
Customer
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Product
Service
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Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley
Desire
Listen
Children
Encourage
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Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.
Zakir Naik
Intelligent
Stole
Material
Desire
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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.
Fulton J. Sheen
Advertising
Tries
Stimulate
Sensuous
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Show Me
Desire
Shows
Something
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Boredom
Desire
For
Happiness
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplishment
Achieve
Achievement
Course
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates
Come
Deadliest
Deepest
Desires
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Sigmund Freud
Derives
Desires
Fact
Falls
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.
George Harrison
As Far As
Being
Being Famous
Dead
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Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard
Always
Answers
Desires
Disappoint
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Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
Also
Beings
Deeds
Desires
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
According
Between
Desires
Every
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus
Desires
Endeavor
Excel
Excellent
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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
Awareness
Desires
Destiny
Feeling
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran
Among
Desires
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Dreams
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho
Conspires
Desires
Dream
Help
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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
Alone
Beauty
Come
Death
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus
Create
Desires
Earth
Flows
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
Achieve
Appear
Desires
Enough
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Faith acts in the present as though the future it desires has already manifested.
Reno Omokri
Faith
Acts
Present
Future
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Baruch Spinoza
Desires
Difficulty
Govern
Men
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained
William Blake
Desire
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Who
Desires
Breeds
Pestilence
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Benjamin Lincoln
Everyone
Desire
Live
Long
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Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.
Wallace Stegner
Satisfying
Natural
Desire
Way
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“If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.”
Neem Karoli Baba
Want
See
God
Kill
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
Death
Desires
Flesh
Hard
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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Friedrich von Hayek
Intellect
Desire
Outstripped
Understanding
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
Marcel Proust
Desire
Cut-across
Confused
Existence
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Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.
Marcel Proust
Desire
Interweave
One
Existence
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“If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.”
Malcolm Gladwell
Work-hard
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Mind
Imagination
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All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. All hatred would come to an end when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
Maimonides
Evil
Desires
Opinion
Religious
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I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold
Mahmoud Darwish
Love
Women
Desires
Horses
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Why are some men more prone to wicked thoughts and desires, rather than goodwill? Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Femi Adesina
Men
Prone
Wicked
Desire
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman
Always
Desires
Dreams
Emotions
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Fantasy is what the world desires. It appeals to the mind. Truth is, as good as it might be and soothing. Reality is what we need in the world today.
Joseph Benjamin
Fantasy
World-desires
Mind
Truth
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
Richard Powers
Addressing
Anxieties
Build
Capable
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
Hannah Arendt
Revolutionary action
Theatrical concession
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.
Robert Greene
Around
People
Constantly
Emotions
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
Roger Ebert
Action
Desires
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Go
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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
Alone
Desires
Felt
Free
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
James Thurber
Dropped
Certain desires
Friends
Death
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell
Desires
Educate
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Horizon
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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting their deepest desires above your own.
Terry Goodkind
To love
Someone
Fulfilled
Putting
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We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.
Russell Brand
Freedom
Ability
Pursue petty
Trivial desires
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