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“There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me”

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Author:Alan Sugar

“Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.”

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Author:Lawren Harris

“I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.”

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Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.”

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Book:Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry

Source: Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry

“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.”

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Book:Moral Philosophy

Source: Moral Philosophy

“Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.”

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Author:Mason Cooley