Aristotle Quotes
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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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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The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar
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Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.
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Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'
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This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
