"Most people are as happy as they want to be."
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"The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point."
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"When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning."
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"I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath."
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"We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to."
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"The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best."
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"When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker."
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"Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something."
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"I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him."
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"The fact was I didn't want to look my age, but I didn't want to act the age I wanted to look either. I also wanted to grow old enough to understand that sentence."
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"Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action."
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"With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate."
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"It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write."
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"I don't want to appear to be placing blame, but as far my life is concerned, everything is pretty much my dad's ball's fault."
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"Come on, you Do you want to live forever?"
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"I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others."
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"Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system."
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"I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency."
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"The key that unlocks a door is a key to keep if you want to go through that door again."
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"We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want."
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