"You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me."
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"We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life"
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"Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction."
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"It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish."
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"I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying."
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"I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed."
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"My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you."
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"If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability."
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"Abortion is a moral right-which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her body?"
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"Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now."
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"Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper"
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"Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't."
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"He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved."
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"You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation."
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"This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood."
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"This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood."
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"I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time."
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"I love doing voice-overs; I wish I could do more of them. It's a lot of fun to see how they take the voice and animate it and try to capture your own expressions and features. It's fascinating."
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"I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity."
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"It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention."
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