"You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves."
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"I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea."
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"We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need."
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"Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence"
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"We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do."
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"Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret."
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"My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing."
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"Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter."
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"We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest."
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"You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself."
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
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"No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself."
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"We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions."
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"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
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"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."
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"Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book- those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord."
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"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."
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"Love is the wish to give, not to receive."
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"Be the person you wish to become - today. Talk like them, walk like them, breathe like them! Be them NOW!"
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