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Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.
Michael Leunig
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Michael Leunig
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Born:
Jun 2
,
1945
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I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Jim Carrey
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
Janis Joplin
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It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.
Moby
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Home
Vote
People
World
Election
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Hundreds
Stay
Around
Heartbreaking
America
Election Day
Many
Right
Here
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When people are desperate or wealthy, they turn to socialism; only when they have no other alternative do they embrace the free market. After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.
Ben Shapiro
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Security
Wealthy
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Lectures
Than
Personal
After
Personal Responsibility
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Far
Guaranteed
A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Vernon Howard
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Social
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Inner
Number
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster
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Alone
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Me
Experience
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Solitary
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Combination
Always
Been
Tug
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Being Alone
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For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
Michelle Obama
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Change
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Hungry
See
Direction
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Lifetime
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Because
First Time
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