"I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience."
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"Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
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"If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less."
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"I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion."
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"In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures."
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"The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done."
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"... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker."
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"Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others."
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"I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium."
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"I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me."
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"I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!"
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"My personal wish would be to have my own TV show but, if I could have anything, my wish for the world is that no one on the Earth would ever go hungry."
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"Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours."
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"The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet."
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"When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth."
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"I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines."
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"We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must."
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"It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child."
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"Practice being the kind of person you wish to attract."
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"[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so."
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