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"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."	Gustave Flaubert
"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."	Jean de La Fontaine
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."	Gerald R. Ford
"Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway."	George Foreman
"The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"	Sigmund Freud
"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."	Sigmund Freud
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."	Robert Fritz
"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."	Erich Fromm
"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire."	Robert Lee Frost
"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve"	Galileo Galilei
"Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born!' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night."	Garry Gamble
"Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to."	Stuti Garg
"Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire."	Shakti Gawain
"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it."	Harold S. Geneen
"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."	Kahlil Gibran
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."	Kahlil Gibran
"When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger."	Bhagavad Gita
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Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. A. Billingsly
Catfish Hunter	Cathleen Douglas	Charles Dickens
Charles Bukowski	Charles Roberts Buxton	Child Age 13
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Clifton Paul Fadiman	Clint(on) Eastwood, Jr.	Clive Alexander Barnes
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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
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