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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?"

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life."

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Rich Mullins Musician
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"I am tired again tonight - a good kind of tired. Some aches are well earned. I wish I could see the sky tonight"

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue)."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
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"What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?"

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
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"Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force."

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