Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards."
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Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary."
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us."
Ramana Maharshi
Spiritual Teacher
"Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent."
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth."
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"Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."
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"They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it."
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"It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free."
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"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good."
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"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."
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"I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine."
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"Don't try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination."
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"Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you."
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"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
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"If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement."
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"Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do."
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"The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat."
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"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin."
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"You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go."
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
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"Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well."
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"You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do."
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"Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer."
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"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."
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"To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try."
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