"All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh."
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"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."
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"He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint."
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"The solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward."
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"It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out."
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"The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong."
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"A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly."
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"Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators."
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"The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it."
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"Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same."
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"Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars."
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"People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth."
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"I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life."
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"The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out."
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"As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom."
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"If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed."
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"When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing."
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"[I] don't like to think like everybody else, don't like to try to think like everybody else, don't like to do nothing everybody else think I'm gone do, don't like to say nothing everybody else think I'm gone say. I'm a Martian. I like to be different. And what's more different than a Martian."
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"I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now."
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"In a time where everything's a flavor of the month, and it's hard to have any sort of longevity, I've been able to sell records still. I want to be the guy that stands out there and says thank you personally to everyone. And I try after my shows and kick it because I want to genuinely say thanks."
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