The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature

— Herbert Spencer

I think that there is a desire on the part of the city and county to do something special there.

— Frank Gehry

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Of mortal fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth control

A faint desire,

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