"I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself."
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"As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable."
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"Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken."
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"Wishing of all employments is the worst"
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"What most we wish, with ease we fancy near."
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"What ardently we wish, we soon believe."
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"We wish our names eternally to live; Wild dream! which ne'er had haunted human thought, Had not our natures been eternal too."
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"The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic."
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"The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge."
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"You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest."
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"Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to behave, so concerned you might make a mistake. But, darling, there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes, our actions, and the consequences that follow both. There are only events, how we cope with them, and what we learn from the coping." "That's too easy," he said. "On the contrary. It's monumentally difficult."
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"I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did."
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"The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are."
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"Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating."
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"I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep."
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"I was encouraged that a group of women wanted to start WISH List, which works like EMILY's List, only it supports pro-choice Republican women. It was started by one of our members, and I was happy to tell her how we did it and encourage her."
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"Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish."
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"It's just mind-blowingly awesome. I apologize, and I wish I was more articulate, but it's hard to be articulate when your mind's blown-but in a very good way."
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"I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is."
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"An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near."
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