“Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.”
Zara, Act I, Sc. 1.
Zara (1735)
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Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 7

“We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place.”
Letter to his son Amos (5 October 1937), as quoted in .
Context: We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption — proven throughout all our activity in the Land — that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.

Quar nous navons volu ne volons le Temple mettre en aucune servitute se non tant come il hy affiert.
In one of his memoranda to Pope Clement V from the summer of 1306.

John Piper Twitter stream http://twitter.com/JohnPiper/statuses/5570283801 (2009-11-09).

As quoted in Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau, Ch. 1
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Confucius, as quoted in Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau, Ch. 1
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“We tell our children things which we know are not so, but which we wish were so.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified