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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

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So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. ↗

— Earl Warren

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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. ↗