"Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something."
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"Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming."
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"I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing."
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"Let the end try the man."
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"Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try."
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"Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die."
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"For conspiracy, I know not how it tastes, though it be dished For me to try how."
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"Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction."
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"Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it."
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"I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics."
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"If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good."
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"The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it."
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"The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening."
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"To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere."
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"The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions."
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"In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once."
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"If you aren't failing, you aren't trying."
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"Side Effects Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on the weekend. Woody Allen Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."
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"I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend."
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"The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all."
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