"Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?"
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"It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned."
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"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."
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"If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children."
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"You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there."
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"Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!"
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"Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around."
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"If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out."
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"Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it."
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"Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness."
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"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."
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"He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth."
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"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings."
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"Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States.""
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"A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise."
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"No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt."
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"Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself"
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"I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!"
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