"When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point."
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"I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge."
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"Industry need not wish."
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"If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning."
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"Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost."
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"We can easily represent things as we wish them to be."
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"I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't."
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"One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it."
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"Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be."
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"Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace."
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"You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you."
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"I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me."
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"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."
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"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand."
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"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
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"If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."
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"It is my last wish to be burried sitting up."
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"(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it."
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"It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"
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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
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