But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Even those who did not wish to end slavery in the South felt that slavery should not spread further.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

"Farewell,General Lee! I wish for your sake and mine that every damned Yankee on earth was sunk ten miles in hell!"

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Jefferson had a wish. He wanted to discover a waterway that crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

It was a tradition to open the White House on that day so the president could wish visitors a happy new year.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

"No,I don't have a death wish. I just happen to think that judging an entire group of people based on the actions of a few individuals within that group is morally wrong."

VOA: special.2010.01.20

"My wish is that the declarations by President Obama inspires action to put an end to the hotspots in the Middle East,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

And that's something that I would never wish on any parent." Captain Didone says the crash that took his son's life was a direct result of distracted driving.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

One of his first declarations was that no one in his ruling council would stand as a candidate in elections because the military had no wish to cling to power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

"Nothing changed.And we hope, we wish and we pray that next year will be a new year full of peace, full of health,and full of security and more trust between all partners,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

I wish I had shoes like that.

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