"Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult."
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"A wish is a desire without energy"
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"He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him."
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"The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place"
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"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people."
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"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
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"It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly."
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"Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts."
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"I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion."
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"For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one."
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"The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world."
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"I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space."
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"I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else."
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"Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'"
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"If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light."
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"Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust."
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"Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time."
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"The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control."
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"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes."
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"He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself."
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