"Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try."
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"I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something."
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"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."
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"Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions."
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"People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach."
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"It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice."
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"'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction."
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"My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better."
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"God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion."
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"Talking about morality can be offensive. Morality is a politically incorrect subject. Many people are genuinely offended if someone speaks of morality and family values. It is okay if you talk about your sexual fantasies and deviances. This is called "liberation". But you would be frowned at if you talk about morality in public. Then you'd be accused of trying to impose your values on others."
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"What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life."
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"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."
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"A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up."
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"We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench"
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
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"The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me."
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"I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by."
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"Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless."
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"People always try to box you in to what they know you best for."
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"You can never get ahead by trying to get even."
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