Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
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Of the laws of nature on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasures. This is no doubt the primary cause of government; for if nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men, nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another. The results are exceedingly different when nature produces the objects of desire not in sufficient abundance for all. The source of dispute is then exhaustless, and every man has the means of acquiring authority over others in proportion to the quantity of those objects which he is able to possess. In this case the end to be obtained through government as the means, is to make that distribution of the scanty materials of happiness which would insure the greatest sum of it in the members of the community taken altogether, preventing every individual or combination of individuals from interfering with that distribution or making any man to have less than his share.
quote by James Mil
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
quote by George Eliot
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The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.
quote by Greg Rusedski
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There are clear cases in which ""understanding"" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
quote by John Searle
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Thoughts Maybe
I think, therefore I am not
I can be nor can I not
I am that of what I am
simple yet intellectual
discarded of all superficial, materialist objects
my moral may not
my smile made false
manifest in thought
my thoughts spread
not lost of infinite possibility of being
present is now
future is and is not
maybe or maybe not calculated
poem by Kelvin Owusu
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Even Objects Around Me
I almost want to ask you to leave my head
Living without you makes me feel dead
The reminder that I'm alone with you is everywhere
It's the kinda that will tear
My mind into pieces, but slowly, painfully, and quietly
That's how it kills me
Because you're even in objects around me
You've been in this house, so you can see
How things all around remind me
About times we've had
Or maybe just time and isn't that sad?
That's all you gave me to cling to?
What were you
Thinking? !
And yet I'm sinking
Drowning in my memories of you, that remind me of desire and love
That remind of hurt and the one sided nature
Maybe it's time to be mature
And just grow up but all around me I'm reminded of you
Even objects speak to me about you, even places in my house too
I can't get you out of my head!
Is this love or something else? !
We barely have memories but I can't let go of you
We barely have memories together but that's all you've got of me too...
Do you think of me, it almost makes me cry
To wonder if you do because you probably don't, why can't my feelings die
Especially when you don't feed them
Especially when you seem to avoid me like a saint to sin
How can I get away from you when even objects cry out against me
They cause me to see
That either I really love you
Or I just can't think stop thinking about you...
The only conclusion I can come to
Is that even objects around me love you too
poem by David Knox
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When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Desire
Desire dwells in mysteries core
Desire itself brings the cure
The only rule...
Suffer the pain
Desire must be disciplined,
What you want to happen...sacrificed
ROTMS
(Insp ired by the brilliance of Rumi)
poem by Ray Lucero
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I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators.
quote by Andrew Cuomo
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Sorrow
Whomsoever my sorrow i told,
He moaned and told his hundred
And one.
Wherever i turned my eye
Rarely met one whose sight
Made me cheerful so distracted
Are they all by objects of world's
Flattery whose morsel
Is sweet,
Taste manifest but fire hidden.
poem by Yoonoos Peerbocus
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
quote by Marcus Aurelius
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
quote by Orson Pratt
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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
quote by Nassau William Senior
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How Did It Happen
I don't know how did it happen?
How did he invade and when?
Why something did not happen then?
Why did it happen all of sudden?
It existed
But I never insisted
I was down with full of attachment and emotion
Always waited for some kind of new relation
With his one time kind touch
I was lost in dream and heaven as such
A kind of feeling I always desired
When he was near and I fully admired
Each girl wants same experience
In life with her trusted fiancé
Those moments may come at anytime
To be caught in surprise sometimes
Yet they are all called natural
No one objects its arrival
It goes unnoticed
When fulfilled with the promises
I shall regret nothing
As it has to do everything
Love and emotions follow thereafter
Sometimes end in tragedy and sometimes roar in laughter
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.
quote by Elvis Stojko
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The impartiality which, in contemplation, is the unalloyed desire for truth, is the very same quality of mind which, in action, is justice, and in emotion is that universal love which can be given to all, and not only to those who are judged useful or admirable. Thus contemplation not only enlarges the objects of our thoughts, but also the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the universe, not only of one walled city at war with the rest. In this citizenship of the universe consists man's true freedom, and his liberation from the thralldom of narrow hopes and fears.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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Winters End
Colder then ever before.
A chill that just won't end.
My body is frozen still.
I don't dare move.
For the pain is more then I can bare.
Sharp needles constantly attacking my feet.
A hunger for something I don't have to eat.
A desire to be complete and full.
Time seems as if it stands still.
I know that can't be as much as it seems to be.
A trickery of the mind.
Hypothermia is so close I can touch it, taste it, and as I do so well to embrace it.
If that the way it has to be.
Facing my destiny.
No sadness at all.
Even if I die standing here, or I'm overcome and happen to fall.
An injury to boot.
Just get a gun and please shoot.
Take my wallet, take my cloths, take everything only leaving cold naked body for all to see.
Just look at all those scars indeed.
Their can be no humiliation once you dead.
So their no worries.
This is my winters end.
No body ever remembers when a life begins.
poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.