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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Change
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Tragedies
William Dean Howells

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A forest bird never wants a cage.
Freedom
Henrik Ibsen

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Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.
self-esteem
Henry Jacobsen

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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Conflict
Joseph Wood Krutch

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He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
Want
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Neighbors
Irving Layton

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Heaven
Joe Louis

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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Desire
James Russell Lowell

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Peace
Jawaharlal Nehru

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
Freedom
Blaise Pascal

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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
Perseverance
Richard Petty

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No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Teachers and Teaching
Plato

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My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
Diplomacy
Carl Rowan

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Marriage
Helen Rowland

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No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree.
Education
Lee Rudolph

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Action
Helmut Schmidt

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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Conflict
Arthur Schopenhauer

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A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
Determination
E(dward) W(yllis) Scripps

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Desire
George Bernard Shaw

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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
Experience
Sir Philip Sidney

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
Lies and Lying
Paul Simon

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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
Marriage
Gary Smalley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun