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"In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?"
"Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around"
"I wish to go on living even after my death."
"Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always."
"We only want to link up with people whom we like, admire, and trust. ... We do not wish to join with managers who lack admirable qualities, no matter how attractive the prospects of their business. We've never succeeded in making a good deal with a bad person."
"The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound."
"We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals."
"I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars"
"I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead."
"Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government."
"Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen."
"I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me."
"Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments."
"If you wish to be a writer, write."
"If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite."
"[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle."
"As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off."
"I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise."
"The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him."
"I wish they would take me as I am."
