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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance"

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better."

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