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Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-Hispanic. That's why Obama ignores the broad support for an immigration plan that would provide border security once and for all and then deal with the illegal immigrants who live here.
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Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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One hires lawyers as one hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
The Question of Max Ch. 5 (1976) -
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
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Others think it's a choice between doing what we want to do and being happy, and doing what God wants us to do and being miserable.
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Our real wants in a small compass lie.
Independance (1764) -
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
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Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.
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Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
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She wants to express herself - to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.
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Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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