Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Fulfillment
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
A man’s ‘original and natural right’ to make all contracts that are ‘intrinsically obligatory,’ and to coerce the fulfillment of them, is one of the most valuable and indispensable of all human possessions.