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"Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept."
"I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation"
"Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true."
"Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind."
"As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it."
"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
"But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known."
"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else."
"Do yourself what you wish others to do."
"We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be."
"I never wish to be easily defined."
"Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away."
"Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting."
"People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
"I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
"So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes."
"I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that."
"Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence."
"The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister"
"People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy"
