Democritus Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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I often get questioned about how we came up with the name 'Weebly.' We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.
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The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
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Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
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YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
