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Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell
US critic & poet (1874 - 1925)

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.

D. H. Lawrence
English novelist (1885 - 1930)

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost
US poet (1874 - 1963)

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.

Maggie Roche

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.

J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."

Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
US novelist (1936 - )

If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.

Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle, Metaphysics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle, Politics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Aristotle, Politics
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Publilius Syrus
(~100 BC)

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt
US politician (1772 - 1834)

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Brendan Francis

Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

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