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"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
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"People are secretive when they have secrets."
"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
"Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it."
"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
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"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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