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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool abou...

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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbias...

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For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. N...

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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we ...

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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try t...

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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be c...

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There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so...

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I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equ...

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completio...

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the cont...

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Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels... try it!

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you...

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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is inf...

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To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ...

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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try ...

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By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people.

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at firs...

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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle...

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I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub ...

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I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be gratefu...

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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not...

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It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. Th...

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What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushe...

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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce bea...

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I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybo...

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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

The only failure is not to try.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...

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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

I try to stay positive and be very, very active.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outs...

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine...

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Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way...

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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charg...

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I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scienti...

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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our childr...

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We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts...

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It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open ...

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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really g...

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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not a...

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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even ...

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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have do...

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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of p...

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Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly tr...

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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wa...

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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm jus...

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On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, an...

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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it'...

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I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I ca...

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I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. ...

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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray thi...

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I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphi...

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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything ...

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The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

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Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every...

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I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, th...

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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death...

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I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I...

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The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ...

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