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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire
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Self-sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen.

Alyce P. Cornyn selby
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane. -Charles Lindbergh
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Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

Alexander Maclaren
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I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

Mark Mcgwire
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Courtesy: Wishes not to be loved, but to be lovely; Not to be benefitted, but to be a benevolence. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Mark Twain
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I do not wish to give up the power of personal arms and be defenseless against those who will ever and always keep and bear arms those in crime and those in government. -Robert W. Burke
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -Oscar Wilde
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What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. -John F. Kennedy
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.

Charles Darwin
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. -Woodrow Wilson
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Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Christopher Columbus
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He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

Christopher Columbus
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -John Adams
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Sigmund Freud
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He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Hugo Ch
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What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen. -Fred Rogers
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Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Nikita Khrushchev
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He gets a little crazy but he's just an intense coach. He's played the game for so many years. It's as if he wishes he was still out there with us.

Patrick Carriere
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse. -George Sheehan
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