I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Lady Gaga

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The desire to know is natural to good men.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

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Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Leonardo da Vinci

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