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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Advice
Lord Chesterfield

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Anecdotes
Lord Chesterfield

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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
Wonder
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Stupidity
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Fights and Fighting
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Fame
E. M. Cioran

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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Work
John Cleese

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Goals
Robert Collier

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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Writers and Writing
Jackie Collins

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I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Motivation
Confucius

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.
Love
Confucius

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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
Uncategorised
Confucius

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To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
Perception
Confucius

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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
Example
Confucius

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I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.
Want
Robert Conklin

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People want riches; they need fulfillment.
Fulfillment
Robert Conklin

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Critics and Criticism
Elvis Costello

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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Leaders and Leadership
James Crook

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Happiness
Dalai Lama

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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Imitation
Salvador Dali

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Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?
Army and Navy
Daniel Daly

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I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.
Effort
William Danforth

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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Death and Dying
Clarence Darrow

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Truth
Robertson Davies

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Fame
Bette Davis

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