"I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates."
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"We do not attract what we want, But what we are."
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"Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants."
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"That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man."
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"While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass."
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"WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior."
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"We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that."
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"Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance."
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"You couldn't have it if you DID want it."
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"You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way."
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"Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu."
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"Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God."
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"I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done."
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"We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others."
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"Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances."
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"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance."
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"One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long."
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"Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant."
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"So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe."
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"The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms."
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