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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
Trust
Money
Own
Thief
Benefit
Rightful
Administer
He
Wishes
His
Owner
Either
Interest
Against
Who
Uses
Receives
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Half
Would
Could
Troubles
He
Wishes
His
Double
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
World
Paradise
Possesses
He
Wishes
Does
Souls
Gold
Succeeds
Who
Helping
Treasure
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
Ludwig von Mises
Peace
Fight
People
Must
Wishes
Whoever
Among
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.
Martha Beck
Daily
You
Be Happy
Happy
Suffering
Yourself
Simple
Free
Complete
Following
Mental
Hygiene
Part
Observe
Wishes
Until
Well
Repeat
Offer
Anxious
Any
May
Upset
Mean
Your
Actually
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther
God
Satan
Burden
Will
Beast
Possession
Wills
Wishes
Contend
Nor
Goes
Choose
Rider
Riders
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci
Day
Will
Year
Rich
He
Wishes
Hanged
Who
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
Man
Young
Every
Way
Rise
Never
He
Wishes
Him
Himself
Hinder
Improve
Suspecting
Anybody
Young Man
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Lily Tomlin
Failure
Opportunities
Opportunity
Somebody
Every
Had
Missed
Wishes
Missing
Behind
Afraid
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
Nikita Khrushchev
Respect
Economics
Wishes
Does
Subject
Greatly
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
Ben Kingsley
Love
Son
People
Father
Young
Think
Other
Wishes
How
How Much
His
Juliet
Uplifting
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Young People
Avenge
Much
Each
Two
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides
Mathematics
Physics
First
Lastly
Must
Logic
Proper
Various
Attain
He
Perfection
Study
Wishes
Metaphysics
Branches
Human
Order
Then
Next
Who
Therefore
Consequently
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin
Thinking
Thoughtful
Habit
Wishes
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Stop
Start
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Hope
People
Fears
Trouble
Think
Minds
Hopes
Rather
Wishes
Most
Than
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Exalted
He
Wishes
Himself
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rather
Life
You
Learning
Tough
Lesson
Everybody
Wishes
Well
Learn
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.
George Washington
Man
Will
Living
Say
See
Abolition
Proper
Adopted
More
Only
Shall
Never
Sincerely
Wishes
Go
Accomplished
Effectual
Mode
Than
Authority
Legislative
As Far As
Wanting
Which
Plan
Far
Who
Suffrage
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Own
Our
Way
Destiny
Give
Something
Wishes
Beyond
Order
Us
Grants
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John Calvin
God
Thoughts
Will
Our
Liberality
Exceed
Wishes
Blessings
Always
However
His
Expect
Infinite
Many
What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Death
Experience
Emotions
Drive
Our
Ourselves
Would
Only
Step
Wishes
Know
Frenzy
Were
Hitch
Fantasies
Themselves
Us
Working
Busyness
Away
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton
Men
Argument
Nothing
Wishes
Prove
Often
Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it deems sufficient. Indeed, it is the solemn duty of all of the members of the House in any impeachment case to exercise their judgment faithfully within the confines established by our Constitution.
Charles T. Canady
Constitution
Impeachment
Political
Political Power
Power
Judgment
Duty
Our
Indeed
Solemn
Members
Must
Case
Raw
Wishes
House
Exercise
Within
Faithfully
Any
Established
Confines
Which
Reason
Whoever
Sufficient
When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Fear
Impossible
Guilt
Older
Enough
Omnipotence
Omnipotent
Our
Diminishes
Possible
Strongest
Powerful
Wishes
Make
Begin
Loved
Loved One
Realize
Really
Grow
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression.
George Will
Political
Become
Somehow
Rather
Both
Merely
Wishes
Most
Geographic
Than
Currency
Fiction
Against
Euro
Europe
Europeans
Expression
Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
Hailee Steinfeld
Life
Girl
Every
Some
Wishes
She
Juliet
Version
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.
Harvey Pekar
People
Try
Way
Write
Wishes
Happen
Fulfill
Things
Things Happen
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