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“The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.”

Men Made Desire Boys Study Plans He Man Independence Careful Invention Inequality Desirable Acquisition Pupils Adopting

Author:William Godwin

“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

Ifs Way Firsts Ends Hands Desire Pleasure Boys Doors Pride Lovers Agree Ice Let It Go Identical Acquisition

Book:Sophocles: Fragments

Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.”

Men Firsts Wells Mean Desire Causes Mankind Delight Perpetual Restless Inclination Moderates Acquisition Live Well

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.”

People Want Desire Choices Culture Sex Influence Media Information Safe Computer Flow Investment Consumers Corporate Range Acquisition Nuance Convergence

Book:Underworld: Picador Classic

Source: Underworld: Picador Classic

“The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.”

Men Desire Increase Acquisition

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works