"Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog"
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"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
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"We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty."
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"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"
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"Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change."
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"The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear."
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"Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish."
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"If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question."
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"I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever."
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"Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw"
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"Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!"
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"Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget."
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"All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly."
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"I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes."
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"Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
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"If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
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"It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it."
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"It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery."
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"Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting."
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