Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were first presented to the world, I wanted life to be perfect, and your arrival did nothing to discourage the wish. To the contrary: one look at your beginning, curled up like a comma in the hospital crib, and I was certain that paradise, never lost, did not have to be regained. Come Saturday, I will feel the same way, though the whole idea of your wedding is still a little hard for me to grasp. That scene in Father of the Bride when Steve Martin sees his grownup daughter as a five-year-old explaining that she is engaged...
...wish I had found more that was genuinely new, but for the most part, the $5 billion-a-year electronic-games industry is playing follow the leader. Shoot-'em-ups are modeled on Quake and Tomb Raider. Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled...
...Your diplomas are worthless," he said. "I wish I had five cents for every glittering resume I've seen turned into nothing...
...wish everyone who came to Harvard had achance to be a part of some team, because the teamthat I've been a part of has been a great part ofmy life," he continued. "If I had one piece ofadvice for Harvard students, it would be to becomea part of something; get to know the people herebecause they are all so special in so many ways...
...wish I had acted with more self-confidence,"she says, talking about how hard it was for her toovercome a feeling that "I didn't deserve things...