"I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed."
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"It is my greatest wish that the Children’s Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light."
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"Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill."
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"Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?"
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"Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor"
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"Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man."
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"He is rich who wishes no more than he has."
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"If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]"
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"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."
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"I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature."
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"For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue."
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"We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model."
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"This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish."
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"I really enjoyed working on the first one [Batman franchise] and I wish I could have worked with Chris Nolan again and I hope to work with him again."
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"Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination."
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"I live between fearing doom and wishing for it."
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"Crazy. Karma is a b****. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!"
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"When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together."
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"We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire."
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"We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for."
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