"Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?"
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"faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it."
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"Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness."
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"I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up."
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"I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now."
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"I'm not contented to capture the world. I want to change it."
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"A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians."
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"Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn."
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"When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best."
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"When I die, I want to come back as me."
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"I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel"
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"What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it."
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"A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar."
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"I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know."
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"I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility."
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"Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
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"No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse."
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"I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories."
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"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."
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"When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!""
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