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"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul."	Smiley Blanton
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."	George Gordon Byron
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess."	I Ching
"Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed."	Confucius
"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."	Marquis de Sade
"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess."	Rene Descartes
"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire."	Tibetan Doctrine
"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory."	Ted W. Engstrom
"When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger."	Bhagavad Gita
"The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires."	William Hazlitt
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"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
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."	Helen Adams Keller
"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery."	Charles Krauthammer
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."	Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."	Niccolo Machiavelli
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."	Orison Swett Marden
"Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."	Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self."	Aristotle
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Aristotle	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bhagavad Gita
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Charles Krauthammer
Charlie McCarthy	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Confucius
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Guterson	David Havard
Dean Koontz	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Edmund Burke
Edward Dahlberg	Epictetus	Eric Butterworth
Eric Hoffer	Euripides	George Gordon Byron
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gérard Depardieu	Hal
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd	Henrik Ibsen
Herbert Kaufman	Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	H. Jackson Brown	Ilie Nastase
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jan Ashford
Jean de La Fontaine	Jeb Stuart Magruder	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Maria Montessori	Marie Curie
Marquis de Sade	Maya Angelou	Michael Korda
Michio Kushi	Mike Newlin	M. Shawn Covey
Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Orison Swett Marden	Pearl Bailey	Phillips Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes	Robert Burton
Robert F. Bennett	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost
Saint Augustine	Shakti Gawain	Sigmund Freud
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir John Lubbock	Smiley Blanton
Sophia Loren	Ted W. Engstrom	Terry Josephson
Tibetan Doctrine	Walter Elliott	Walter Savage Landor
William Blake	William Hazlitt	William Adams
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