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“I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.”

Knows Giving Country Desire Strong Percent Bills Income Gates Giving Back Pledge Buffett Warren Buffet

Author:David Rubenstein

“The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.”

Might Used Desire Shoulders Satisfied Gates Unbreakable

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”

Men Desire Strong Interest Half Enemy Watches Break Masters Conscience Fellows Violent Crush Gates Approval Dread Herds Vigilant Censure

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.”

Ifs Men Moving Desire Differences Cities Fire Generations Activity Eternal Labor Foundation Dust Gates Atoms City Of God

Book:The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

Source: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation

“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.”

Ifs States Desire Turns Opportunity Hours Sleep Answers Doubt Fate Return Mortals Conquer Vain Gates Woe Foe Follow Me Feasting Opportunity Knocking

Author:John James Ingalls

“Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.”

Men Humans Remember Young Desire Human Life Young Man Gates Old Man Remembrance

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.”

Desire Gates Repulsion

Author:Salvador Dali