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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There are four powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses sight, hearing, and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Leonardo da Vinci

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At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

Confucius

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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

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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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The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Rabindranath Tagore

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