"We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire."

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"We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire."

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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Politeness

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Desire, Limitation, Experience, Learning

"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Desire, Food, Beauty, Contrast

"Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told."

Madison Thorne Grey, American Author

Desire, Discipline, Power, Emotion

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Desire, Imperfection, Man

"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Desire, Sadness

"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Desire, Love, Hunger, Emptiness

"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."

John Desmond Bernal, Irish Scientist

Desire, Fate, Future, Man

"If I could find someone who would love me to the extent I do, I would love her to the extent she could never love me."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Art is subject to arbitrary fashion."

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"In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse."

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"People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does."

People

"We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon."

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"It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all."

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"The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it."

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