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“Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.”

Way Giving Mind Desire Turns Cases Influence Information Exercise Capable Stronger One Way Instruction Efficient Desirable Impart Makes You Stronger Knowledge And Information

Book:The Optimist Creed

Source: The Optimist Creed

“An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.”

Men Desire Rich Calling Lucky Capable Deserve Strikes Disaster Fortunate Satisfying Riding Better Off Refrain Rich Man Unlucky Lucky Man

Author:Solon

“Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.”

Men Feels Faces Young Desire Sex Parent Situation Son Couple Capable Daughter Men And Women Response Definitions Defined Helpless Making Love Spontaneous Seduction

Author:Margaret Mead

“Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.”

Men Way Seems Able Desire Space Vision Feminism Subjects Capable Embrace Feminist Fulfillment Revolutionary Encounters Imaginary Linked Responding Subjugation

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.”

Ideas Feelings Desire Universe Capable Photographer Driven Visuals Quests

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.”

World Persons Desire Ambition Capable Lows

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections