"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

Desire, Inspiring

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"The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

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

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Without 'Gnan' (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes."

Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A man desire two things: love and happiness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Remember that any desire is tested; the greater the desire, the greater the tests."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

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"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them."

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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."

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"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."

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"Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever."

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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."

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"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."

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"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."

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"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."

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