"It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid."
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"In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity."
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"I wish my fans will always be nice to one another. Don't waste time & enjoy life"
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"Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things."
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"If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly."
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"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."
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"Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true."
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"If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle."
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"But wishes are only granted in fairy tales."
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"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
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"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."
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"Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another."
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"We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them."
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"If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak."
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."
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"Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage."
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"The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population."
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"He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist."
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"So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last."
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"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
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