"The less the power, the greater the desire…" — Bernard Levin
"The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it."
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11 Quotes by Bernard Levin
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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why,…
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In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are…
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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
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The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.
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Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of…
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If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals,…
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I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the…
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Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British…
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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