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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants

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Thomas Merton

Monk, Writer, Theologian, Mystic, Poet, Social Activist

I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

Protecting

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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Joseph Stalin

Former Premier of the Soviet Union

Of course, in order to build something new, one has to economize, accumulate means, temporarily limit one's requirements, borrow from others. If you want to build a new house, you save money temporarily and limit your requirements, otherwise you might not build your house.

Meaning - Wants

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Enlightenment - Ignorance - Strength - Teaching - Wants - Weakness

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Fear - Wants

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Al Franken

Comedian, Former US Senator

The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.

Corporations - Government - Individual - Information - Pledge - Privacy - Protecting - Right

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Louise Hay

Author

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

Accept - Consciousness - Hate - Jobs - Negative - Thinking - Wants

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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Aesop

Fabulist, Storyteller

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Debt - Literature - Wants - Wisdom

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Kurt Vonnegut

Writer

People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

Chemistry - Wants

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Samuel Beckett

Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Theatre Director

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

Wants

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

Character - Mindset - Wants

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Aspiration - Intention - Possibility - Soulmate - Wants - Wishing

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Andy Warhol

Artist, Director, Producer

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

Conditioning - Oneself - Wants

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Rajneesh

Guru

Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.

Cost - Crowd - Decision - Giving - Individual - Loss - Wants

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Louise Hay

Author

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Past

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Jesse Jackson

Civil Rights Activist, Clergyman, Politician

I want to make America better!

America - Wants

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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Teaching - Wants

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Agatha Christie

Writer

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

Wants

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