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"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
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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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"Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire."
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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."
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"You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever."
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"Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural."
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"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
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"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."
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"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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"Life can become difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."
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"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
Emotion

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Happiness

"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."
Wellness

"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
Friendship

"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."
Leadership

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
Wisdom

"Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"
Politics

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
Politics

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
Religion

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
Justice
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