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  • Anna Jameson What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Julius Caesar What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Brad Carson What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Dave Barry What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Antonio Porchia What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Jerry Gillies What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Boris Pasternak What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Peter F. Drucker What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Benny Andersson What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
    Robert Stone
     
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  • Cass Sunstein What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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