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"I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity."
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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."
"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."
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
"He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."
"I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service."
"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them."
"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey."
"Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail."
"It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group."
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