"Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first."
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"Behave like the human being you wish all would be"
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"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)"
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"To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort."
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"No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom... I wish I could."
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"But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings."
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"I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you."
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"And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine."
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"All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all."
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"I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget."
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"Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her."
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"We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason."
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"One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off."
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"Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you."
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"I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery."
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"I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon."
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"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society."
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"I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary."
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"A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority."
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"I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!"
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