"It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes."
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"He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed."
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"It is the act of a coward to wish for death."
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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"
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"Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw."
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"So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him."
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"To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses."
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"Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent."
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"The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now."
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"I wish that real estate were cheaper and clothes were more expensive."
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"This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph."
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"A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire."
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"I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't."
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"I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony."
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"Keep dreaming, wishing and planning. There's immeasurable power in it."
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"It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)"
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"I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons."
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"The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to hear of the Buddha's knowledge and insight and thus enable them to gain purity. They appear in the world because they wish to demonstrate the Buddha's knowledge and insight to the beings. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to understand. They appear in the world because they wish to cause the beings to enter into the path of the Buddha's knowledge and insight."
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"By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes."
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"Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable."
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