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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."	Anwar el-Sadat
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important."	George Eliot
"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."	T. S. Eliot
"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. [Men] measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time...is a very good one..."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."	Epictetus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for."	Epicurus
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen."	Abd Er-Rahman III
"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."	Euripides
"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."	Euripides
"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."	Clifton Paul Fadiman
"I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes."	Federico Fellni
"I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."	Sally Field
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."	Ella Fitzgerald
"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."	F(rancis) Scott
"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally."	Zelda
"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally."	Zelda
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Abd Er-Rahman III	Abraham Lincoln	Ainsley Carry
Akhenaton	Alan Alexander Milne	Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell	Andrew Carnegie	André Maurois
Ann Landers	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Anwar el-Sadat
Aristotle	Athenæus	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
Barbara Burrow	Barbara Charline Jordan	Bernard Edmonds
Bernard Mannes Baruch	Bethania McKenstry	Bhagavad Gita
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Bob Dylan	Bob Moawad
Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. A. Billingsly
Catfish Hunter	Cathleen Douglas	Charles Dickens
Charles Bukowski	Charles Roberts Buxton	Child Age 13
Child Age 15	Christopher Darlington Morley	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Clifton Paul Fadiman	Clint(on) Eastwood, Jr.	Clive Alexander Barnes
Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius	Curtis Grant
Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Dale Carnegie	Damien Hess
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Broder
David Havard	David McCord	Dennis McKinsey
Diane Ackerman	Dick Allen	Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Dr. Arthur Kellerman	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edmund Burke	Edward Dahlberg	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
Elias Canetti	Ella Fitzgerald	Emma Albani
Epictetus	Epicurus	Erich Fromm
Eric Butterworth	Eric Hoffer	Eric Lustbader
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eubie
Euripides	Eustace Budgell	Federico Fellni
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Fran Lebowitz	Francis William Bourdillon
Frank Herbert	Frederick Douglass	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	F. H. Bradley	Galileo Galilei
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Garrison Keillor	Garry Gamble
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
J. F. Boyse	Kahlil Gibran	Karen Burka
Kathe Kolliqitz	Kurt Lewin	Lady Nancy Astor
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Bernstein	Leonardo DiCaprio
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lillian Hellman	Lisa Alther
Louis Kronenberger	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Margaret Anderson
Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark McGee
Marlon Brando	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maxim Gorky
Max Lerner	Max Lucado	Michael Korda
Michael Landon	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Michio Kushi
Mignon McLaughlin	Mike McLaren	Miles Dewey Davis
M. Shawn Covey	Napolean Hill	Neill MacRae
Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Ogden Nash
Orison Swett Marden	Paul Beatty	Paul Hawken
Percy H. Johnson	Phillip K. Dick	Phillips Brooks
Philo Judaeus	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph Bunche
Raymond Holliwel	Ray Douglas Bradbury	Rena Harmon
Rene Descartes	Richard Lamm	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Mathews	Robert Baker	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Fritz	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Henri
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost	Romare Beardon
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Saint Augustine
Sally Field	Samuel Goldwyn	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Shakti Gawain	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Smiley Blanton	Sophia Loren
Stuti Garg	Sydney J. Harris	Taylor Hanson
Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson	Tibetan Doctrine
T. S. Eliot	Ursula K. LeGuin	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Vinny Nayak	Virginia Hanson	Walter Frederick Mondale
Warren G. Bennis	William Blake	William Hazlitt
William James	William Adams	William E. Holler
William Seward Burroughs	William Sherman Pene du Bois	Witold Gombrowicz
Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden	Zelda
Zora Neale Hurston	(John) Calvin Coolidge