He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
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A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~English Proverb
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ~Imogen Cunningham
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential; these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~Confucius
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. ~Dutch Proverb
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
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If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. ~African Proverb
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions. ~Aristotle
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ~American Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Our problem with desire is that we want too little. ~C. S. Lewis
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ~Anna Kournikova
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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The inspector ate only two of my tiny sandwiches: the first because he had'nt expected it to taste so awful; the second, I think, because he'd thought surely the first must have been a mistake. ~Karen Marie Moning
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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