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“My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.”

Firsts Wanted Song Girl Wish Known Advice Skins Like Me Obsessed Thick Thick Skin

Author:Kate Voegele

“I wish I'd known you when you were alive.”

Wish Known Alive Sarcastic

Author:Leonard Louis Levinson

“But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.”

Wish Acting Known Prove Scripture Word Of God Unbelievers

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”

Long Whole Found Wish Poor Known Principles Rich Security Paper Aim Property Possession Secure Range Extensions Papers Gist

Author:John Ruskin

“The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.”

Source: Correspondence

“How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.”

Knows Wish Known Regret Travel Starting Subtle Traveler Nuisance Luggage Idiosyncrasies

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.”

World Persons Enough Wish Known Five Six Esteem Vanity Vain Presumptuous

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.”

Knows Littles Doe Real Death Spirit Wish Known Teach Dying Sight Dull Unconsciousness

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.”

Wish Known Defined Vacation

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.”

Ifs World War Purpose Wish Effort Known Doubt Subjects Willing Depends Majority Aggression World History Against War

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”

People Has Beens Country Sometimes Seems Lost Wish Felt Growth My Own Known Integrity Racism Conscious Paris Simplest Surroundings

Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset

“I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.”

Thinking Wells Long Self Young Girl Wish Sides Known Doubt Effects Late Twenties Insecurity Lasting Self-doubt Side Effects Long Lasting Tweens Late Twenties

Author:Deborah Reber

“Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.”

Wells Mean Philosophy Wish Known Wonder Seeing Perspective Liberation Routine Well Known Soar Phylosophy New Perspective

Author:Walter Kaufmann