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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral.: Unknown
What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience: quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience?"

Results from Poor Man's College:

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.: South
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

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