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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about knowledge, power, good, good luck

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Quote by Camille Paglia about music, rocks, reality, sex, being

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Quote by Joseph Addison about hunger

Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we'll have to start displaying scalps.

Quote by George W. Bush about blood, nation

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give...

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Quote by Herodotus about knowledge, people

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Quote by Thomas Otway about ambition, joy

Love grows, lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, ...

Love grows, lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Quote by William Penn about love, union, joy, common sense, sense, reason

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in...

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Quote by William Penn about humility, common sense, sense, man

A human life gains luster and strength only when it is...

A human life gains luster and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Quote by Masutatsu Oyama about life, human imperfections

The small gifts Small gifts of air and tired light, Of a more distant God. Vague signs On the back of his graphs. When everything you have love is sinking slowly In air, light, in the mud of brain... And remain... What remain? Small...

Quote by Alexandru Musina about gifts, air, light, astrology, brain, god, things, dream, fall, eyes

I am a contemplative, but not a passive one and I try to...

I am a contemplative, but not a passive one and I try to repress as much as I can my passions - pain, fear, lust, pleasure.

Quote by Liviu Ioan (lis) Stoiciu about weakness, pain, pleasure, fear

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