"3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell."
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"Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others."
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"The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty."
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"The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it."
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"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."
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"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."
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"The big question is, are we letting ourselves become what we wish to become?"
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it."
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"Wishes are premonitions of abilities."
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"And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."
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"None love, but they who wish to love."
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"Pine needle sorbet? Pine needle sorbet?! My kids do NOT eat sorbet. They eat sherbet, and they pronounce it sherbert, and they wish it was ice cream!"
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"I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out."
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"People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted."
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"Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
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"I do wish that the IMF and the World Bank would disappear soon."
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"Every wish Is like a prayer--with God."
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"I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form."
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"It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble."
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