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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington
Will
First
Wish
Distinguished
Rigor
Some
Operate
Force
Greater
Conduct
Than
Therefore
If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.
Harvey Milk
Life
Quality
First
Wish
Important
Rebuild
Living
Our
Neighborhoods
Cities
Must
More
Quality Of Life
Understand
Than
Standard
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke
Happy
World
Better
Sound Mind
Mind
Will
Wish
Else
State
More
He
Sound
Short
Anything
Wants
Anything Else
Either
Little
Them
Body
Full
Description
Two
An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.
John Paul Jones
War
Peace
First
Wish
Active
Honorable
Delight
Take
Part
Most
Always
Continue
Blood
Human
Should
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk
Hope
Dreams
Courage
Reality
Wish
Imagination
Those
Make
Who
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
Future
Respect
Safety
Wish
Past
Must
Mistrust
Provide
Present
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
Marianne Williamson
Mother
Father
Wish
Mother And Father
Parental
Perfect
Had
Ideal
Attitudes
Self-Love
However
Modeled
Did
Taught
Childhoods
Us
Who
Internalize
Many
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Natural
Men
Wish
Mistakes
Ability
Admittedly
Rather
More
Costs
Always
Praised
Condemnation
Condemned
Very
Than
Lack
Common
Want
Succeed
Acquire
Deserve
Thing
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
You
Old
Wish
Duty
All Things
Puritan
More
Never
Like
Cannot
Should
Your
Less
Things
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May
Freedom
Wish
Our
Response
Throw
Weight
Toward
Involves
Human
Which
Capacity
Human Freedom
Pause
Choose
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
Liberty
Men
Wish
Master
Few
Only
Most
Few Men
Just
Desire
Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'
Steven Wright
Death
Words
Sometimes
Word
First
Wish
Could
Bed
End
Quote
Last
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
Learning
Genius
Wish
See
Insignificance
Shakespeare
Study
Know
Force
Read
His
May
Human
Should
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman
You
People
Language
Wish
Never
Reach
Impose
Your
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus
Music
Art
Will
First
Wish
Analysis
Kind
Dream
Must
Only
Shall
Feel
Understand
Does
Truly
Fertile
Conducive
Move
Which
Then
Us
Reason
Tolerate
Appreciate
I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.
Ashley Greene
Love
Moving On
Hate
Negative
Wish
Energy
Bad
Would
More
Never
Takes
Well
Still
Than
Person
Anything
Regardless
Breakup
Them
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
You
Mind
Wish
Own
Confuse
Others
Minds
Frank
Take
Conceal
Line
Explicit
Your
Right
Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
Wish
Industry
Need
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Brian Tracy
Life
You
Achieve
Wish
Become
Own
Worthwhile
Must
Self-Development
Person
Personal
Your
Things
Career
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina
Mom
Strength
Me
Courage
Mother
Passion
Power
Wish
About
Inspiration
Could
Bottled
She
Did
Taught
You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
Charlize Theron
Mom
You
Mother
Wish
Single
Think
Aims
Know
Single Mom
Any
Happened
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens
Thought
Power
Wish
Remove
Those
Term
Dictators
American
Us
Should
Used
Useful
Who
Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
Colin Cunningham
Work
You
Will
Wish
Be Careful
More
Because
Quickly
Get
Even
Careful
People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.
Conor McGregor
Blame
People
Wish
Own
Situation
Think
Others
Out
Find
Seek
Like
Look
Around
Go
Person
Just
Them
Should
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.
Danielle Berry
Alone
Time
Wish
Spent
Gee
More
Computer
Computers
Had
No-One
Said
Deathbed
Ever
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
Signs
First
Wish
Understanding
Beginning
Die
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