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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Service
Art
Good
Dance
Wish
Philosopher
Dancer
Finally
Kind
Fine
Fine Art
Spirit
More
Only
Could
Divine
He
Ideal
Know
Also
Piety
Knows
His
Than
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie
Happiness
Good
Good Things
Wish
Too
Ease
Introspection
Embrace
Someone
Could
Never
Since
Self-Doubt
Boy
Often
Who
Moments
Ever
Things
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.
Isaiah Berlin
Wish
About
Only
Come
How
Came
Go
Curious
Going
Where
Whether
Barbarians
Appear
Why
Why Not
The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.
Jenny McCarthy
Cause
Wish
Autism
Some
Rise
Schedule
Primary
Idea
Matches
Years
Might
Vaccine
Vaccines
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
War
Destruction
Fear
Hatred
First
Wish
Those
Destroy
Mad
Propaganda
Neurosis
Well
Make
Said
Stirred
Up
Gods
May
Prelude
Whom
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
Wish
Important
Every
Given
Learn
Important Thing
Child
Taught
Much
Should
Thing
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.
Joichi Ito
Peace
World
Long
Wish
Building
Before
Believe
World Peace
Everyone
Earth
Way
Able
Voices
Long Way
Go
Hear
Providing
Essential
Bridges
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.
Jose Rizal
Time
Wish
Nation
Young
Our
Gaze
Approval
Must
Shall
Over
Make
Read
Halt
Trying
From Time To Time
Turn
Elders
Actions
March
I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.
Kathy Najimy
Love
Best
You
Celebrate
Human Being
Wish
Believe
Potential
Any
Human
Just
Being
To Love
Who
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You
Will
Wish
Had
Got
Ask
I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.
Malorie Blackman
Time
Wish
Mistakes
Past
Few
Believe
Back
Learn
Go
However
Past Mistakes
Few Things
Move
Move Forward
Them
Might
Regrets
Much
Forward
Differently
Things
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
Margaret Cho
Class
Hide
Wish
Employment
Cloak
Effective
Any
Might
Lower
Lower Class
Incognito
Dagger
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
Mary J. Blige
Education
Knowledge
You
Key
Knowledge Is Power
Husband
Power
Wish
Books
Seeing
Had
Pick
Known
How
Educational
Up
Shows
Now
Elevate
Watch
The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.
Mike Huckabee
Faith
Best
Me
You
Treat
Wish
Christian
Others
Way
Say
Best Way
Essence
Christian Faith
Treated
I don't think I have reached that stage where I can evaluate my career. I still have a long way to go. All I wish for now is to make sensible moves and to choose wisely. It doesn't matter if there are gaps between films, as long as the ones I do give me the satisfaction of having done something good.
Nivin Pauly
Good
Me
Matter
Long
Wish
Stage
Think
Films
Way
Give
Something
Give Me
Having
Something Good
Long Way
Wisely
Between
Reached
Make
Still
Go
Done
Where
Moves
Sensible
Choose
Evaluate
Gaps
Satisfaction
Now
Career
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato
Power
Wish
Steals
He
Same
Little
Much
Less
Who
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
Wisdom
You
Wish
Highest
Reach
Begin
Lowest
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
Character
Wish
Cowardly
Resolve
Complaint
Despised
Possess
Firmness
Always
Exertion
Enduring
Whining
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe
You
Peace
Commitment
Conflict
Election
Wish
Before
Assure
State
Our
Never
Armed
House
Democratic
Democratic Process
Return
Existed
Any
Process
Which
Lancaster
Agreement
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas a Kempis
You
Yourself
People
Wish
Other
Would
Entirely
Liking
How
Mould
Expect
Cannot
Your
As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.
William Wallace
Me
Man
Heart
Cause
Will
Wish
Country
Consider
Ranks
Follow
Followers
Head
Glory
Always
Sound
His
Either
Who
Found
Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now.
Wynton Marsalis
You
Wish
Else
Later
Someone
Now
What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
Mitt Romney
Wish
Lost
Ambition
Our
Define
Had
Investments
Attention
Disappointed
Occupy
Won
May
Us
Elections
Fulfilled
Things
When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.
Alan Ruck
Funny
Nature
Wish
Human Nature
Think
Drama
Something
More
Doing
Human
Just
Serious
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
Alice Paul
Freedom
Me
Business
Women
Wish
Think
Our
Say
See
Seems
Lot
Get
Going
Then
Should
Things
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
People
Fools
Wish
Willing
Remain
Foolish
Foolishness
Avoid
Appear
Appearance
Actually
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