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"You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later."
"God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down."
"Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about."
"I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there"
"I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am."
"It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like."
"Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being."
"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."
"Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything."
"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."
"I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching."
"The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see."
"Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not."
"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
"Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown."
"My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something."
"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever."
"It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us."
"When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward."
"If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure."
