"It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world."
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"The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them."
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"At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area."
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"By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am."
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"Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them."
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"You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside."
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"I think there are many experts who say, in fact, the most powerful nations on earth are more vulnerable today than the weaker nations because they're the targets of so many of these groups that are trying to steal, to buy, to build nuclear weapons."
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"I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention."
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"I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes."
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"Man can learn everything if he will but try."
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"There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it."
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"All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally."
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"The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to."
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"If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail."
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"Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do."
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"I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor]."
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"Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are."
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"I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness."
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"When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair."
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"What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it."
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