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'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.' |
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- Charles Dickens
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...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. |
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- Albert Einstein
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. |
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- Ayn Rand
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. |
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- Robert F. Bennett
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. |
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- Mark Twain
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. |
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- Albert Einstein
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. |
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- Alec Waugh
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. |
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- Horace Mann
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Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all. |
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- Sir Walter Raleigh
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. |
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- Aristotle
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