Quotes by wants

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Friedrich Nietzsche
German poet and philosopher 1844-1900

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Helen Rowland
American journalist 1875-1950

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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian dramatist 1828-1906

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A forest bird never wants a cage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher 1803-1882

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
Betty Friedan
American feministisch writer 1921-

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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher 1803-1882

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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
Bow Wow
American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) 1987-

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Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
Alfred Marshall
British economist 1842-1924

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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Blaise Pascal
French physicist, mathematician and philosopher 1623-1662

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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
William Cobbett
British journalist 1762-1835

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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Bob Dylan
American musician 1941-

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Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American president 1890-1969

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Max Weber

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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
Jonathan Swift
English writer 1667-1745

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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.