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• Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Peace

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• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Change, Men, Views

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Lust, Dying

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself.
  When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself.
  The practice is always to go back to oneself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Anger, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Going Home”, p.38, Random House

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• There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

  Sivananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Wish

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.986, Penguin

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• If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Desire, Controlled

  Twitter post from May 25, 2013

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• The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

  George Crabbe

  Book, Cooking, Mind

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.93

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• I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Humble, Blessing

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  God, Prayer, Animal

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

  Elias Canetti

  Life, Should, Endorsements

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• But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last. Only when your brain starts expecting the reward--craving the endorphins or sense of accomplishment--will it become automatic to lace up your jogging shoes each morning. The cue, in addition to triggering a routine, must also trigger a craving for the reward to come.

  Charles Duhigg

  Morning, Shoes, Accomplishment

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• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Positive, Negative

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.538, D. H. Lawrence

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• I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.

  Bryan Davis

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

  Gil Fronsdal

  Wish, Intention, Knows

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• There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Class, Stronger, Titles

  The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) ch. 6

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Past, Guarantees That, Childhood

  Isaiah Berlin (2014). “Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought”, p.387, Princeton University Press

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• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Population, World

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• By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

  Phyllis Diller

  Baby, Pregnancy, Common

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• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Envy, Earth

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

  John Dryden

  Change, Time, Children

  All for Love act 4, sc. 1 (1678)

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• I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

  Sheena Easton

  Blessed, People

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Art, Teaching, Mindfulness

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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