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~ It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences. ~

Ernest Nagel

~ Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ~

Samuel Alexander

~ Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ~

Irving Babbitt

~ An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing ~

Samuel Smiles

~ An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ~

Samuel Smiles

~ The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ~

M. Scott Peck

~ Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ~

Zig Ziglar

~ We should keep strict vigil on the already controlled senses so that they do not get an opportunity to raise their ugly heads. Pure diet is of great help in this regard i.e. in controlling sensual desires and anger ~

Atharva Veda

~ “What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.” ~

William E Rothschild

~ “A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.” ~

Alec Waugh

~ If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ~

George Washington

~ No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ~

Jeremy Taylor

~ It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ The ego exists because we go on pedalling desire, because we go on striving to get something, because we go on jumping ahead of ourselves. ~

Osho

~ I awake each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savour the world. This makes it hard to plan my day. ~

E. B. White

~ The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ~

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

~ The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. ~

Earl Nightingale

~ Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ~

Salman Rushdie

~ Human altruism is thought to be based, in part, on empathy. To be empathetic, you need to understand the thoughts and desires of others. ~

Joan Silk

~ Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires. ~

Mason Cooley

~ Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. ~

Paul Vernon Buser

~ Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ~

Arthur Keith

~ Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ~

Blaise Pascal

~ Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. ~

Neil Armstrong

~ Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ~

Saint Thomas Aquinas

~ Wonder implies the desire to learn. ~

Aristotle

~ There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ~

Charles Pierce

~ This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. ~

Jacques Delors

~ Las Vegas exists chiefly to satisfy the needs and desires of its visitors, and this it does in spectacular fashion. Sin City has taken or re-created the best that other great cities have to offer and then upped the ante -- making it bigger, grander, flashier. ~

SCOTT DOGGETT

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