Ruth Pitter Quotes
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

Quotes to Explore
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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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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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
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I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.
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All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
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The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.