"If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue."
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"Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures."
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"From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."
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"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."
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"With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now"
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"I wish to work miracles."
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"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies."
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"Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity."
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"Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are."
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"One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be."
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"You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere."
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"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."
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"The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool."
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"People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa"
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"If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country."
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"Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."
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"Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave."
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"I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'"
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"What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others."
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"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us"
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