"Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing."
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"Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment."
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"I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy."
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"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat."
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"Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us."
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"Before I die, I want to fight for life."
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"When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place."
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"God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine."
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"I want to make sure that all kids get a good education and enjoy what they learn"
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"The main reason guys will never admit to having even the teeniest clue about what women really want is because if they did, they'd have to do something about it."
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"People want transparency in government."
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"God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy."
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"I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness."
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"More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me."
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"I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be."
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"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head."
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"When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down."
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"I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin."
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"My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it."
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"You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself."
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