"Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure."
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"Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!"
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"You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree."
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"We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out."
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"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."
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"Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself."
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"The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are."
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"Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence."
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"People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"
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"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
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"It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect."
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"Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this."
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"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."
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"Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive"
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"It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories."
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"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible."
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"Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you."
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"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."
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"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad."
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"Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him."
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