"If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation."
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"I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'"
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"Speeding is like drugs. It makes everything come at you fast, and when you go back to normal driving, safe driving, prudent driving, it seems boring. That's the danger of drugs. At first it's intoxicating, but then the rest of your life you're trying to find that very first time. It never is the same."
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"Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy."
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"I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny."
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"Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian."
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"Of course, having a lack of emotions saves you from doing a big crying scene in the movie or something. I would try to remove myself from any situation before a scene or something like that, and just sit and think about absolutely nothing."
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"There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously."
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"If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country."
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"I've come to learn that conditioning is a huge thing, so I'm definitely trying to get my conditioning up."
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"Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime."
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"If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means."
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"Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?"
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"Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody."
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"What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve."
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"Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings."
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"Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process."
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"Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."
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"It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good."
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"Go ahead, fail. Try to avoid mistakes, though."
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