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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.

Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

Potential counts for a lot; but heart, desire, and will can take a dream from potential to possible.

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhD’s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities - even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how. It is too important a cultural force to be shrouded by mystified notions of Romantic transcendence.

Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Really think hard about what you want to do, because when you're doing what you want to do is probably when you'll be doing your best. And pray it is not a hobby so they'll pay you for it.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Rebuttals never alter desire.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.