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Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
Appreciation
Geoffrey F. Abert

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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
Communication
Creighton Abrams

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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Anger
William R. Alger

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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
Progress
Charles M. Allen

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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
Contentment
Fred A. Allen

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How badly do you want it?
Want
George E. Allen

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Immortality
Woody Allen

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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead.
Food and Eating
Woody Allen

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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Death and Dying
Woody Allen

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We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
Acting and Actors
Henri Frederic Amiel

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
Love
Margaret Anderson

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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Arts and Artists
Guillaume Apollinaire

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Advertising
Archibishop of Canterbury

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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
Neighbors
Pietro Aretino

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Friends and Friendship
Aristotle

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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Customers
Laura Ashley

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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Lady Nancy Astor

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
Change
Lady Nancy Astor

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Friends and Friendship
St. Augustine

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Travel and Tourism
Richard Bach

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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words
Gaston Bachelard

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love
Francis Bacon

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Change
Pearl Bailey

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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Advice
Ivern Ball

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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Effort
Lucille Ball

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