"I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better."
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"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides."
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"If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always."
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"The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute."
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"If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters."
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"Hate heals, you should try it sometime."
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"It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way."
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"I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due."
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"You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
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"In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable."
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"Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us."
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"For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk about, things that I can define. I don't try to talk about things just because they might be a popular subject. I talk about things I know about."
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"Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!"
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"We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life."
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"No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation."
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"Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!"
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"I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to."
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"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts."
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"Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid."
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"I'd probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them."
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