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• George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience—which is sometimes a great help—and a strong desire to be my very best.

  David McCullough

  Strong, Ignorant, Desire

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• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

  Eric Maisel

  Depression, Strong, Artist

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Powerful, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.42, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

  Robert Collier

  Strong, Kindness, Competition

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Magic Word”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Advice, Desire

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• If I look at the really important questions in [Middle East] region, I see Iran, where there is a strong desire for a freer society and where people are repressed by a small group of ayatollahs. I see Syria, where we can see a similar desire of the people to be free. These two countries fund Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations and are hurting our efforts in Afghanistan and have been extremely harmful in Iraq. Then I also see large, important countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Strong, Hurt

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

  Cain Velasquez

  Strong, Training, Get Better

  Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2010.

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• A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

  John Eldredge

  Suicide, Strong, Wine

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already wealthy elite wealthier, and increase its greed and strong desire to hang on to power. So immediately and in the long run, these companies - harm the democratic process a great deal.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Running, Strong, Jobs

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• I had a very strong desire to carry out adventures, but in those early days I didn't actually do any. I just dreamt about it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Strong, Adventure, Desire

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Kissing, Two

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

  Adam Carolla

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Adam Carolla keeps political rants fast and loose". www.politico.com.

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• Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Strong, Writing, Giving

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• All the energy in the universe is evenly present in all places at the same time. We don't get energy, we release energy. And the triggering mechanism to release energy is desire. When you have a strong desire to do something, you will always have the energy to do it.

  Bob Proctor

  Strong, Desire, Energy

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.

  Kelly Link

  Strong, Hate, Silly

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

  Francis Quarles

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Francis Quarles (1861). “Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers”, p.28

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• I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

  Nelson DeMille

  Strong, Successful, Desire

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• There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Men, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1845, Manonmani Publishers

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• Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Desire, Tendencies

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.131, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

  Matt Nathanson

  Strong, Feelings, Desire

  "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

  Radhanath Swami

  Strong, Giving, Desire

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

  Dallas Willard

  Strong, Lust, Desire

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• Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.

  Steve Pavlina

  Spiritual, Strong, Reality

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