"If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words."
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"To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom."
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"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
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"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
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"And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered."
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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind."
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"I would not wish any companion in the world but you."
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"No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is."
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"My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone."
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"Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay - that 'someone else' is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money."
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"As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life."
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"The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like."
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"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
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"I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed."
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"When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace."
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"There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave."
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"At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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"There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter"
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