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"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."	Bhagavad Gita
"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."	Samuel Goldwyn
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."	Witold Gombrowicz
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."	Witold Gombrowicz
"People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is."	Terry Goodkind
"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"	Maxim Gorky
"If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."	John B. Gough
"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them."	Curtis Grant
"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way."	Gurdjieff
"You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for"	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
"Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First, take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled-up napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then, I told myself, 'Go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me.'"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When people say that the desert is lifeless, it just makes me want to grab them by the collar and yell, 'Why you stupid, stupid bastard!' Then I drive them out into the desert to where the circus is, and point out the many forms of zebra and clown life."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
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Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Fran Lebowitz	Francis William Bourdillon
Frank Herbert	Frederick Douglass	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	F. H. Bradley	Galileo Galilei
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General Charles De Gaulle	Geoffrey F. Abert	George Eliot
George Dana Boardman	George Foreman	George Frost Kennan
George Gordon Byron	George Stanley McGovern	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Gurdjieff	Gustave Flaubert	Gérard Depardieu
G. Campbell Morgan	Hal	Harold Howe II
Harold S. Geneen	Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd
Henrik Ibsen	Henry Hitt Crane	Herbert Clark Hoover
Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
H. Jackson Browne	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Janet Jackson
Jane Austen	Jan Ashford	Jean de La Fontaine
Jean Kerr	Jeff Herman	Jerry Lewis
Jesse Lair	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Blofeld	John Burroughs
John B. Gough	John Cleese	John Dryden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Brooks
Joseph Conrad	Joseph Wood Krutch	Josh Billings
Juvenal	J(ames) William Fulbright	J. Brotherton
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