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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
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"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."
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Personal Development
"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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Personal Development
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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Personal Development
"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"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."
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"Be more than a person she would settle for... be a person she would yearn for."
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"A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations."
Society
"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule."
Desire
"The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally."
War
"Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common."
Church
"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."
Time
"A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason."
Science
"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest."
Technology
"There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults."
Religion
"The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility."
War
"Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society."
Man
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