Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"If you want to change the world, start with yourself."
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Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize."
Barack Obama
Politician
"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
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"When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg."
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"Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could."
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"Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life."
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"Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd."
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"If he only wants you for your breasts, legs, and thighs, send him to KFC."
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"Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves."
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"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. If we want to change the world we have to change our thinking...no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew."
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"I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it."
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"The key is to enjoy life, because they don't want you to enjoy life."
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"God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking."
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"If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life."
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"If you want different results, do not do the same things."
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"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
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"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
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"The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want"
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"Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish."
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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better."
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"Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go"
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"If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears."
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"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."
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