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    So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

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    Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

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    Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more.

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    Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

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    The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

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    The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

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    The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

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    The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

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    The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

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    The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

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    The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

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    The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.

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    The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

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    The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

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    The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.

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    The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate, to be tender, to sit all alone or share the company of others. There was a great warmth and tolerance in this destitute setting.

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    The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate.

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    There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

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    The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

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    There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.

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    The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

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    There's this huge number of desperate people.

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    The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

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    These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to hear more wild, dishonest smears during this campaign.

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    This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

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    The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

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    There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

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    This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

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    Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

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    We are loaded down with too many good things, more than we could ever need, while others are desperate for a small loaf. The good things we cling to are more than money; we hoard our resources, our gifts, our time, our families, out friends....how ludicrous it is to hold on to the abundance God has given us and merely repeat the words 'thank you'.

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    This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

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    We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

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    We don't need to respond with desperate violence.

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    We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

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    This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

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    We celebrities are desperate pigs.

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    When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

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    When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

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    We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

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    When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.

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    Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

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    When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

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    Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

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    When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

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    Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.

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    You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

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    You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

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    Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

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    Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

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    ...as if, one lover gone, I was opening up for an immediate replacement. Smack habit, love habit - what's the difference? They can both kill you. For the bus journey I fell in love with a woman who smiled at me. The motion of the bus made her thick mop of fair curls tremble. We talked about desperados. 'I am fatally attracted to them', I said. 'In fact, I probably am one'.