Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.
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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
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That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.
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Dieting is wishful shrinking.
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