"You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be"
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"We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted."
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"A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that."
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"I want my money back!"
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"When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals."
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"Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want."
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"If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character."
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"The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served."
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"All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them."
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"I want results when I fight."
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"I'll play what you want or I won't play at all."
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"I'm not really hip to too much of the Zen or the Buddhist point of view, but you see I don't have to be because I just know that they're all the same, it's all the same, it's just whichever one you want to take and it happens that I'm taking the Hindu one."
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"I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life."
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"If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me."
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"Be true to yourself. But that's something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like."
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"Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child."
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"You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!"
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"...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are."
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"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."
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"Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives."
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