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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Greed
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
Mediocrity
Brian Moore

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Mother Teresa

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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Disease
Mother Teresa

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
Work
Ogden Nash

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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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Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?
Motivation
Earl Nightingale

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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Cooperation
Earl Nightingale

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The big thing is that you know what you want.
Goals
Earl Nightingale

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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Prejudice
Richard M. Nixon

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I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
Computers
Kenneth Olsen

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
Oppression
George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Goodness
George Orwell

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Will and Will Power
Ovid

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Heart
Theodore Parker

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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Politicians and Politics
Cecil Parkinson

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Nature
Dolly Parton

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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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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Listening
Blaise Pascal

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I want to be famous everywhere.
Fame
Luciano Pavarotti

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Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
Elections
H. Ross Perot

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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Opinions
Laurence J. Peter

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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
Imagination
Thomas J. Peters

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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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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
Causes
Wendell Phillips

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