"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."
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"I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school."
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"I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier."
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"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."
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"The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die."
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"If God didn't want you to masturbate, he would have given you short arms."
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"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
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"If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace. But I don't really have any great ambitions. I feel very happy. I've got a lot of good friends. I just want it to be better and more of it, really."
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"I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ."
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"If you want to be happy, just be."
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"If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either."
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"Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me."
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"God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well."
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"When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him."
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"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."
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"All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious."
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"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."
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"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."
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"Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that."
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"I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay."
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