"Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason."
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"Like so many Boomers, I saw Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. Im not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us."
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"It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character."
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"And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories."
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"In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting."
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"I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her."
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"Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought."
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"There's tons of stuff where you're like, "God, I wish I could take that back.""
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"Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition."
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"I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still."
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"I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do."
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"Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?"
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"Evil cannot be conquered by wishing."
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"I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy."
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"It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness."
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"I wish we had all been born birds instead."
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"I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States."
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"I wish I had no heart, it aches so."
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"So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped."
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"[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family."
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