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In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be… — Albert Schweitzer
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. — Theodore Roosevelt
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see… — Flannery O'Connor
We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not… — Carl Sagan
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are… — Swami Vivekananda
Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when… — Jodi Picoult
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's… — Richard Paul Evans
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. — Aristotle
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a… — Theodore Roosevelt
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make… — Ayn Rand
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. — Ayn Rand
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he… — Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them. — M. Night Shyamalan
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work… — Helen Keller
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is… — William James
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do… — John Berger
It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting. — Miranda July
People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to… — Gloria Whelan
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of… — Ayn Rand
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a… — Ray Bradbury
We often confuse what we wish for with what is. — Neil Gaiman

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