"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got."
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"When you wish # good for others, good things come back to you."
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"I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place."
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"Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering."
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"I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish."
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"I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel."
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"My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations."
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"Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not."
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"The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth."
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"Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it."
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"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein."
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"One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money."
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"Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish."
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"Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy."
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"I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while."
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"The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function."
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"We often confuse what we wish for with what is."
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"Wish I am free from barriers when I die, and Buddha will welcome me from far away."
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"Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go."
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"It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people."
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