"The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body."
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"I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand."
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"If you want to know India, study Vivekananda. In him everything is positive and nothing negative."
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"If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."
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"Forget the audience, make what you want to see"
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"If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians."
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"If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy."
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"Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'"
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"It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself."
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"Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world."
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"At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated."
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"It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't."
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"Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them."
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"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."
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"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day."
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"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
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"I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy."
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"If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact."
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"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it."
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"No one wants to go out mid-sentence."
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