"Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined."
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"The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants."
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"Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries."
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"Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society."
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"We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us."
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"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly"
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"Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them"
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"I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy."
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"If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented."
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"I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them."
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"They always want to sell me as a hard bopper."
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"Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong."
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"Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth.""
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"There are people out there who pay their hard earned money to see a good show and people who work 9 to 5 and they saved their money and they want to see the best show possible."
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"The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take."
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"Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs."
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"I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day."
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"She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted."
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"If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it."
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"I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out."
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