"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding"
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"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact."
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"Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart."
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"I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote"."
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"He who wishes to fight must first count the cost"
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"I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient."
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"I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . ."
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"There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head."
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"My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'"
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"Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross."
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"My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility."
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"Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight."
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"Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so"
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"As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture."
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"...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves."
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"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes."
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"I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way."
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"To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts."
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"What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes."
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"To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep."
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