"We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him."
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"To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution."
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"If you want a change in the world, be the change"
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"Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure."
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"If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place."
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"The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me."
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"When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence."
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"The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence."
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"There's pressure every night to be the best on the court. I put a lot of pressure on myself. Pressure is part of the game. It is also part of life. I want to prove I can do the work and be a success off the court as well as on it."
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"I just love to fight, and regardless of who I'm fighting, I want to be at the top level."
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"Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"
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"If you really want everything, then give up everything."
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"He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act."
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"When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for."
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"You can definitely aid the message that you want to send to people by what scent you're wearing."
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"People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man."
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"Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months."
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"I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures."
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"If you want people to like you you have to buy them things."
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"If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise."
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