“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”
Source: As a Man Thinketh
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Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen
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Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Roh Moo-hyun (1946–2009) 9th President of the Republic of Korea
Excerpts from inaugural address (25 February 2003)
William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) Dean of St Pauls
Assessments and Anticipations, "Prognostications" (1929)
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
“A frightening thing, which is perhaps true: "old men want to survive."”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Which perspective is true? he thought. Which do I want to be true?”
Tim Powers book Declare
Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 10 (p. 285)